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How is auf dem Rand played?
Aim the stroke, scrape or other marked action at the instrument’s rim or outer edge rather than its head centre, body or cymbal dome. Read the instruction with the named instrument and implement: a cymbal rim stroke, a drum-rim contact and another instrument’s edge are physically and acoustically different. On suspended cymbal, a side-on rim stroke is an occasional colour whose result depends strongly on the stick. Preserve the written rhythm, dynamic, duration and damping; the words do not by themselves require a rimshot, cross-stick, one attack strength or one fixed timbre.
How does auf dem Rand sound?
edged, sharp or rim-related sound
In context
Auf dem Rand is a German playing-point instruction, not an instrument or implement name. It directs the action to the relevant rim or edge, while the score or legend must establish what is struck and how. Musicca records the complete phrase without an abbreviation, and no proposed short form received three independent direct expansions, so it remains written out.