Patent ID: 8003869

Claim:
A method for a player to render a harmonic chime on a stringed instrument that has a neck, a bridge, and at least one string, wherein the player has a string-stopping hand that can shorten a playable length of the at least one string plus a string-picking hand with a plurality of digits including a thumb and fingers, the thumb and a finger of which can hold, or the thumb itself able to have mounted thereon, a first pick, which comprises: providing the stringed instrument; holding by the thumb and finger of the string-picking hand, or mounting on the thumb of the string-picking hand, the first pick; and touching a second pick mounted on another finger of the string-picking hand, or touching another finger of the string-picking hand not having a pick, to a harmonic-rendering node position of the at least one string, and plucking the at least one string between the bridge and the harmonic-rendering node position with the first pick to provide the harmonic chime.