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Discover the viola on these pages. Read about composing for the instrument and watch Philharmonia viola players demonstrating various techniques including the basics of bowing, pizzicato, harmonics and playing chords.
On this page read about the variety of different plucking techniques a viola player can perform.
There are many techniques for plucking string instruments.
Viola Pizzicato is plucking the string, as opposed to bowing. Notation: pizz. At the end of a pizzicato passage the instruction arco is used to indicate that players change to bowing instead of plucking.
