So says Wikipedia.In music, a double stop is the act of playing two notes simultaneously on a melodic percussion instrument (like a marimba) or stringed instrument (for example, a violin or a guitar). In performing a double stop, two separate strings are depressed ("stopped") by the fingers, and bowed or plucked simultaneously (without a string change).
A triple stop is the same technique applied to three strings; a quadruple stop applies to four strings. Double, triple, and quadruple stopping are collectively known as multiple stopping.
My question is: Why are they called (double...) "stops"? Why not something like "two-note phrases"? Is there something about how they were originally applied to original instruments that caused them to be called stops? Nowhere else in my readings about fretted instruments do I hear the term "stop the string (at the...fret)" used.
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