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Landru
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My question is fairly simple, but I'm having a hard time finding the answer.
A guitar body dampens the vibration of a guitar string to some degree by contorting slightly as the string oscillates, and then producing sound waves and heat in turn.
My question is; is it the mass the of the guitar, or the rigidity of the guitar, or somehow both, that contribute to the damping ratio it imparts on the strings?
Also, in either case, will the damping ratio be frequency dependent, and if so, what causes that to be the case?
A guitar body dampens the vibration of a guitar string to some degree by contorting slightly as the string oscillates, and then producing sound waves and heat in turn.
My question is; is it the mass the of the guitar, or the rigidity of the guitar, or somehow both, that contribute to the damping ratio it imparts on the strings?
Also, in either case, will the damping ratio be frequency dependent, and if so, what causes that to be the case?