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How is sul bordo played?
Move the contact point from the ordinary area toward the edge named by the instrument’s notation or legend, while retaining the separately specified implement, stroke and dynamic. Edge contact changes which vibration modes are excited, but the result is not universal: it can become thinner, lighter, more focused, less projecting or otherwise coloured according to whether the surface is a drumhead, cymbal, keyboard-percussion bar or another object. Mark the return point clearly.
How does sul bordo sound?
Edged, often brighter sound.
In context
Sul bordo is an Italian playing-area direction meaning at the edge. It controls placement rather than mallet hardness or articulation and often contrasts with al centro, but its exact sound must be described instrument by instrument. The candidate sul bord. lacked three independent direct expansions of the complete phrase, so the instruction remains written out.