1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ yorkiebrony http://rainbowdash.net/yorkiebrony http://rainbowdash.net/notice/2965566 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/30324" class="url" title="Trixie Lulamoon-Spark"><span class="fn nickname">trixie</span></a></span> yes, it's called 'pizzicato': plucking the strings with your fingers. If you listen to the intro of - for example - Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbzxhZT6akk&amp;list=PLDCC6BDCAF4AD95D5" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbzxhZT6akk&amp;list=PLDCC6BDCAF4AD95D5" class="attachment thumbnail" id="attachment-381046" rel="nofollow external">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbzxhZT6akk&amp;list=PLDCC6BDCAF4AD95D5</a>) you can hear the cellos and double base doing this pizzicato just before the violins and violas start a melody.