Recent content by Ethan B.

Hello, As the finger stopped the quarter length of the string, there were 4 antinodes and therefore it was the third harmonic (you can actually see the antinodes if you do the same thing on the G-string). As for the calculations, I'm thinking there is the third harmonic and another tone very...

I know there's a beat note here, but how come I don't hear a separate tone or any beats? And where could this inaudible second tone be coming from? I'm also puzzled as to why there only seem to be 2 tones at play here, instead of the usual mess.

I lightly placed my finger a quarter of the length down the E-string of a violin and drew the bow, forcing the third harmonic. I used an oscilloscope app to look at the waveform. I got this unusually regular pure pattern...