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Originally Posted by SunnyDee
As another person who often asks questions that others can't parse, I applaud you. Are you just showing this is possible or do you have musical applications in mind?
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Thank you. To answer your question: both.
On one level, I just want to show that it is perfectly possible to strike the higher overtones with just as much clarity as the lower overtones.
But there are far more advanced techniques that are available to you once you've developed the touch to be able to sound up to at least the eighth natural harmonic with each harmonic of the same quality of tone and at all nodal positions along the length of the string (on every string). If you really grapple with what a harmonic truly is, you'll discover that the harmonics you strike off the string (what you get the way people usually play harmonics) are efficiently modeled as harmonic
differentials. And if you really understand what this means starting from first principles, you gain the ability to start exploring and using harmonic
integrals.