source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 07:54:59 -0800 Subject: Re: Sympathetic Vibrations, etc From: Gary Morrison -------------------- Begin Original Message -------------------- Message text written by INTERNET:tuning@ella.mills.edu " Of course, you have to have the amp fairly loud, and hold the guitar pretty close. " -------------------- End Original Message -------------------- I think that pretty much says it. It's pretty hard to get much sympathetic vibrations from the strings themselves in the case of an acoustic guitar. Although I've only done so much with electric guitars, what I have done with them suggests that most of the feedback from an electric guitar, the strings aren't much involved at all. It comes from the guitar pickups directly (electromagnetically) picking up the magnet of the speaker. That's pretty apparent from the fact that you can damp the strings entirely and it continues. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 18:02 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02036; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 18:02:20 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA21742 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id JAA00731; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 09:00:31 -0800 Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 09:00:31 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu