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Your point about resonances isn't really true. The other strings can resonate "sympathetically" even when you play a fingered note. For example, vibrato can be
by kayson 5y ago
Your point about resonances isn't really true. The other strings can resonate "sympathetically" even when you play a fingered note. For example, vibrato can be achieved on open strings by vibrating on the finger position that corresponds to the note an octave higher than the open string. This is mostly used for the open G string, since as the lowest note, it can't be played anywhere else on the instrument. But its also used on other strings for different colors.
Sympathetic resonance is also why some keys sound better on a violin than others. Violinists tend to like the keys with sharps: G D A E
- dhosek 5y agoBut that's not connected to fifths tuning. It can happen with any tuning (one “trick” with a dual neck 6/12 string electric guitar is to tune the strings on the 12-string neck to each of the diatonic pitches so they resonate with whatever note is played on the 6-string neck, and then of course there are the sympathetic strings on Indian stringed instruments which have a similar function). Curiously, while orchestral strings tend to be more comfortable in the sharp keys, as a double bass player, I was equally at home (if not more so) in the flat keys that tend to be favored by winds.