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fog37
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Hello,
The guitar is a stringed instrument with six strings of equal length but different linear mass density. Fretting is about shortening the length of a string which causes the fundamental mode and higher modes to have higher resonant frequencies.
The guitar is a stringed instrument with six strings of equal length but different linear mass density. Fretting is about shortening the length of a string which causes the fundamental mode and higher modes to have higher resonant frequencies.
- When a guitar string is plucked (by hand or with a pick), the initial string form is triangular. The plucking is done not in the middle of the string but near the sound hole. Why? Is that the case for all stringed instruments? What do we gain by plucking far from the middle point?
- When a guitar player plays guitar by plucking and fretting strings, do the generated sounds correspond to the fundamental frequency of that string (higher order modes are always less dominant)? Music is a sequence of sounds having a specific frequency content but the fundamental mode in each sound is dominant and determines how the note sounds. All the added overtones are simply shaping the fundamental mode in a slightly different manner. Is that correct?