source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 13:27:41 -0800 Subject: strings and things From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> > I believe that sympathetic strings do indeed work by transferring > the energy through the air. As a simple experiment, sing into a string > on a guitar, and you can easily set the string to vibrating > (sympathetically) with your voice. In that particular case I'm almost certain that would gets the guitar string to vibrate is the sound waves from your voice vibrating the soundboard, which vibrates the strings. FAR less, I believe you'll find is a result of the air directly exciting the strings themselves. Try it with a solid-body guitar on headphones and I'd be surprised if you hear much. (I've never tried it myself, so I may be surprised as well.) Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 23:19 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02078; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 23:22:36 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA02076 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA26527; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 14:22:33 -0800 Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 14:22:33 -0800 Message-Id: <009ADEE6FA1D2760.0639@vbv40.ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu