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How is Mehrklang played?
Use the fingering, embouchure, air pressure and voicing supplied for the instrument to stabilize the requested simultaneous components. Woodwind multiphonics commonly exploit fingerings with more than one strong resonance; brass and some woodwind contexts may instead specify singing and playing, but that is a distinct production route and should not be assumed from Mehrklang alone. Follow any notated pitches, fingering diagram, dynamic, onset and duration, because feasibility, balance, tuning and response vary by instrument, register and player. Do not replace the instruction with an ordinary chord, difference tone, overblown single partial or software token.
How does Mehrklang sound?
Several simultaneous pitch components.
In context
In this entry Mehrklang denotes wind-instrument multiphonics: several audible pitch components within one player’s sound. Acoustic and performer resources show that special resonances, fingerings and embouchure can support simultaneous notes, while sung-and-played multiphonics form another separately specified family. The term can mean a chord or polyphonic aggregate in broader German usage, so instrument and notation are essential. No exact text abbreviation met the three-source threshold, and fingering diagrams or stacked noteheads remain separate notation channels; Mehrklang therefore remains written out.