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RE: Sympathetic Vibrations

🔗Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul)

3/1/1997 7:29:47 AM
From: PAULE

Matt Nathan wrote,

>Since sound is conducted equally well in both directions
>between string and body, and equally well in both
>directions between air and body, it makes sense to me
>that when you sing, the air vibrations are picked up
>only slightly by the string's small contact with the
>air and more greatly by the body which then conducts
>the vibration to the strings, but that the strings,
>though having poor direct contact with the air, will
>determine which notes the system as a whole resonates
>best to.

If it means anything, my training as a physicist leads me to say that Matt
is exactly right. In order to prove this experimentally, you could use
magnetic pickups rather than acoustical resonators to determine the
amplitude of the vibrations on the string . . .


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