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How is frei schwingen lassen played?
Set the sound in motion, then keep the relevant damping mechanism clear: do not touch a ringing string, bar, plate, cymbal or gong, and use the local pedal or damper state where the instrument requires it. A contemporary score legend, for example, uses frei to cancel a lightly hand-damped metal plate and explains the result as Platte frei schwingen lassen, showing that the endpoint and sounding object are local. The phrase overlaps functionally with klingen lassen and the French and Italian let-ring directions, but l.v. does not expand this German wording and no shortened German text form reached the evidence threshold. It contrasts with abdämpfen or Saiten abdämpfen only when those instructions address the same resonance.
How does frei schwingen lassen sound?
A fully open, freely resonating tone that rings for as long as the instrument naturally allows before fading.
In context
Frei schwingen lassen means 'let vibrate freely': allow the named resonant body to continue without deliberate damping until a written cutoff or its practical decay. It is more explicit about free vibration than klingen lassen, but the two can overlap in context; neither that overlap nor a graphical laissez-vibrer tie creates an abbreviation for this exact German phrase.
Equivalent terms
- IT lasciare vibrare
- FR laisser vibrer
- EN let vibrate freely
- DA lad svinge frit
- DA lad klinge frit