source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 07:29:47 -0800 Subject: RE: Sympathetic Vibrations From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) From: PAULE Matt Nathan wrote, >Since sound is conducted equally well in both directions >between string and body, and equally well in both >directions between air and body, it makes sense to me >that when you sing, the air vibrations are picked up >only slightly by the string's small contact with the >air and more greatly by the body which then conducts >the vibration to the strings, but that the strings, >though having poor direct contact with the air, will >determine which notes the system as a whole resonates >best to. If it means anything, my training as a physicist leads me to say that Matt is exactly right. In order to prove this experimentally, you could use magnetic pickups rather than acoustical resonators to determine the amplitude of the vibrations on the string . . . Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 16:31 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01378; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 16:31:42 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01389 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id HAA13435; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 07:29:29 -0800 Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 07:29:29 -0800 Message-Id: <009B09E5958AD9F2.582E@vbv40.ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu