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String instruments can be tapped just about anywhere. The body of a string instrument, being a resonant cavity, can resound quit loudly when struck with the fingers or another object.

==Miscellaneous effects==

===“Chewing”===

An effect sometimes used for humorous effect by string players, “chewing” is performed by loosening the bow hair and placing the bow bow hair side up against the back of the instrument. The bow is then rotated causing the bow stick to pop and crunch as it goes over the course bow hairs. This effect, which sounds remarkably like a person chewing something crunchy, is fairly quiet and could benefit from amplification.

===Bow screw glissando===

[[Image:Violin bow parts.jpg|150px|right|The screw of the bow]]

The bow can be held vertically and the screw of the bow placed firmly against a string either at the ___location of a fingered note or at some other point. The string can then be plucked with the right hand and the screw of the bow can be simultaneously dragged up or down the string. The effect of this is to produce a quiet rising or falling ping. This effect is used in [[Helmut Lachenmann|Helmut Lachenmann’s]] Toccatina.

==See also==