Recent content by nigol

I think that is exactly right ("...in threads like this, the problem is working out what it is that someone needs to understand"). It seems that most of the responders did not understand what I wanted to know (I think you did though). This is not because of their lack of knowledge, but because...

Yes. Thanks to all of you.

Hey Dave, I probably articulated that incorrectly. But I do realize that an electric guitar will work in a vacuum. In fact, that's exactly what baffled me so much.

Windadct, Jim, Merlin Thanks so much. This has to be one of the most friendly and helpful forums. I think I understand now. Wind's answer got through to me and the others confirmed it. So it appears that the originator of the whole thing is the movement of the string and the relation between...

Hy everyone, Merlin, Windact, Jim, and Sophie Thanks so much for taking the time to write these answers. I'm certainly understanding more than I did before. But the problem is that I think you are not understanding what I am not understanding. Let me try to walk you through my thinking...

At the expense of sounding extremely dumb, Its amazing how you could figure that out by using science. Yes, the pickup nearer to the guitar bridge is very treble heavy and the overtones are totally different through a neck pickup. I'm starting to understand more I think. I'm going to post a...

H Hey Merlin, I understand how guitar pickups work. What I don't understand is how the disturbance in the air can be understood also from a disturbance in the magnetic field. I get that the pickups DETECTS the movement. But why the disturbance in the magnetic field is the same information as...

Thanks for welcoming me. :) And more thanks for attempting to answer the question. What the question is Not about: 1. The variations in tone created as a result of acoustic properties. I am also aware that different pickups produce different sounds. 2. The question is also Not about the...

Hey I am a layperson, and have very little understanding of physics. I'm trying to understand the relation between a magnetic field and air and how they are similar or dissimilar in terms of disturbance in them. Let me lay out the context from which I came to think about the question...