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One thing they do not mention is a stringed instrument creates a standing wave which produces many octaves simultaneously when playing a single note. This sound
by osigurdson 5y ago
One thing they do not mention is a stringed instrument creates a standing wave which produces many octaves simultaneously when playing a single note. This sounds considerably different from a pure sine wave and is possible to leverage in a creative way on guitar/guitar like instruments.
- jefftk 5y agoNot just many octaves: many harmonics. With an ideal string, these are all multiples of the fundamental frequency, because they each represent a different way of dividing the whole string into equal parts.