Usage examples (6)

• I learn up bow and down bow, the golden mean, staccato and legato, sul tasto and sul ponticello.
• For instance, Geoff Knorr's piece has a very interesting swelling effect using harmonics with sul ponticello.
• Playing with the bow close to the bridge (sul ponticello), chiefly used tremolando, produces a metallic sound; playing on the finger-board (sul tasto, flautando) creates...
• By contrast, the Emersons again took a more subdued approach, applying a gentle insistence to the repeated-note counter-melody of the first movement and a buzzing, outer-space...