RE: TUNING digest 947

>Also, looking at good Sitars, I noticed that the sympathetic strings each
>have their own nut exactly beneath the fret that sounds the note they
>amplify. The sympathetic string's bridge is right beneath the main bridge.
>It seems to me that these SHOULD be the nodal points for that note on the
>instrument. I can't imagine the air conducting the sound from one string
to
>the other. Hundreds of years of design can't be that far wrong. What am I
>missing?

>-Glen Peterson

The bridge and nut or fretted fret are trivially nodal points for all
harmonics of a string.


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