source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 15:32:27 -0800 Subject: Sympathetic Strings, Partials, Nodes, and Sitars. From: Kelly Rappuchi and Glen Peterson Gary Morrison wrote: >I really think it's fair to say that all of the common string and wind >instruments have partials at frequencies sufficiently close to harmonics >that, for the vast majority of musical purposes, they can be considered >practically harmonic. Do you still have this information? How close is close? Does anyone know how these discrepencies affect sympathetic strings? Also, looking at good Sitars, I noticed that the sympathetic strings each have their own nut exactly beneath the fret that sounds the note they amplify. The sympathetic string's bridge is right beneath the main bridge. It seems to me that these SHOULD be the nodal points for that note on the instrument. I can't imagine the air conducting the sound from one string to the other. Hundreds of years of design can't be that far wrong. What am I missing? -Glen Peterson Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 20:28 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01589; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 20:30:56 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01587 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA23515; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 11:30:48 -0800 Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 11:30:48 -0800 Message-Id: <199701051929.AA23088@eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu