source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:50:06 -0800 Subject: Sympathetic vibrations, etc From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) From: PAULE Gary had the same comment as I, but added, >That's pretty apparent from the fact that you can damp the strings entirely >and it continues. In typical situations, that is not the case. The vibration of the string, however tiny, usually determines the frequency of the feedback. Well, it determines a fundamental frequency, of which the feedback is a harmonic. One nice effect is obtaining feedback at a particular harmonic, then bending the string, whereupon the origianal mode of vibration, now at a different frequency, usually dies away and a new one fades into prominence. The magnetic characteristics determine the preferred frequencies, but the string does have to participate in the mechanism to a very small extent. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 21:58 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03327; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 21:58:06 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03343 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id MAA15881; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:51:15 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:51:15 -0800 Message-Id: <009B0BA4024666CB.5883@vbv40.ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu