source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:15:26 -0800 Subject: RE: TUNING digest 947 From: PAULE >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 The bridge and nut or fretted fret are trivially nodal points for all harmonics of a string. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 17:36 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03013; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 17:39:31 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03011 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA14530; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:39:28 -0800 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:39:28 -0800 Message-Id: <06JAN97.12475506.0037.MUSIC@MUSIC.STLAWU.EDU> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu