double stopping

1. 1.

   stopping two strings and producing two notes at the same time

   Broaderstopping

Questions about double stopping

What does double stopping mean?

double stopping means "stopping two strings and producing two notes at the same time".

Is double stopping a common word?

double stopping is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.