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Bowing over the fingerboard, producing a soft, flute-like, fundamental-rich sound.
Sul tasto is the opposite of sul ponticello — it produces a muted, ethereal sound with weak overtones. Use it for dreamy, distant effects or extremely soft passages where you want the strings to blend into transparency.
Debussy's "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" — sul tasto strings create the languorous, hazy atmosphere of the faun's afternoon.
Sul tasto is one of 228 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary, where every definition is written around how composers actually use the word.
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