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BigMacnFries
When a musical string (guitar etc) is struck a standing wave the length of the string is set up with a frequency X. Also many harmonics are set up with frequencies 2X, 3X, 4X...
From my physics textbooks I can understand how by shaking a piece of string (with one end fixed) at the right frequency you could set up a standing wave of X, or by shaking it 3 times faster you could set up a standing wave of 3X.
I don't understand how by plucking a guitar string once you get all of the possible harmonics, common sense says to me you should only get X but obviously this is not true. Can somebody please explain or point me to a web page, Thanks.
From my physics textbooks I can understand how by shaking a piece of string (with one end fixed) at the right frequency you could set up a standing wave of X, or by shaking it 3 times faster you could set up a standing wave of 3X.
I don't understand how by plucking a guitar string once you get all of the possible harmonics, common sense says to me you should only get X but obviously this is not true. Can somebody please explain or point me to a web page, Thanks.