A vibration in a string is a wave. Resonance causes a vibrating string to produce a sound with constant frequency, i.e. constant pitch. If the length or...
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the air inside it. The vibration of the body of the instrument and the enclosed hollow or chamber make the vibration of the string more audible to the performer...
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characteristic vibrational modes. One of the vibration modes of a closed string can be identified as the graviton. In certain string theories, the lowest-energy...
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Sympathetic resonance (redirect from Sympathetic vibration)
resonance or sympathetic vibration is a harmonic phenomenon wherein a passive string or vibratory body responds to external vibrations to which it has a harmonic...
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Bridge (instrument) (redirect from Bridge (stringed instrument))
bridge is a device that supports the strings on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component...
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music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Strings are held under tension so that they can...
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Electric guitar (redirect from String-through body)
lead guitarist. Many experiments with electrically amplifying the vibrations of a string instrument were made dating back to the early part of the 20th century...
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Guitar (redirect from 6-string guitar)
pieces, one for each string (electric guitars and basses). The saddle's basic purpose is to provide the endpoint for the string's vibration at the correct location...
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Wolf tone (category String performance techniques)
different types of string vibration. All bowed string vibration is “stick-slip oscillation”. One of the vibration types involves a single slip in every cycle...
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Double bass (redirect from String bass)
strings are nylon wrapped in wire, to add more mass to the string, slowing the vibration, and thus facilitating lower pitches. The change from gut to...
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string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings. The bow rubbing the string causes vibration which...
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string looks just like an ordinary particle, with its mass, charge, and other properties determined by the vibrational state of the string. In string...
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and independently Tamiaki Yoneya, studied the boson-like patterns of string vibration and found that their properties exactly matched those of the graviton...
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making string vibration speed visible and countable. For example if a string 0.33 meters long, of given mass and tension, produces A440, a string with identical...
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are a warm tone, long sustain, and a large surface area to transmit string vibration, leading to a "live" feeling instrument. In guitars it also often allows...
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Pythagorean hammers (section String vibrations)
relation to string tension The assumption that the vibration frequency of a string is proportional to the tension is not correct. Rather, the vibration frequency...
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Superstring theory (redirect from Super string theory)
as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric strings. 'Superstring theory' is a shorthand for supersymmetric string theory because unlike bosonic string theory...
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fretless bass Trevor Rabin – guitars, keyboards, vocals, string arrangements "Yes / High Vibration 16 SACD box set from Warner Music Japan – SuperDeluxeEdition"...
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work string at the surface. Reference Three (above) provides a full explanation of this technology. The frequency of rotation, and hence vibration of the...
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mechanics Pendulum Rayleigh–Lorentz pendulum Small-angle approximation String vibration Uniform circular motion The choice of using a cosine in this equation...
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Piano (category String instruments)
acoustic energy to the air. When the key is released, a damper stops the string's vibration, ending the sound. Most notes have three strings, except for the bass...
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Overtone (section String instruments)
strings. This means that halving the physical string length does not halve the actual string vibration length, and, hence, the overtones will not be exact...
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this case, 55 Hz is identified as the fundamental frequency of the string vibration, and the integer multiples are known as harmonics. Study of the eigenvalues...
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mechanical waves are seismic waves, gravity waves, surface waves and string vibrations. In an electromagnetic wave (such as light), coupling between the...
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Stretched tuning (section Vibration of wire strings)
In an ideal plain string, vibration over half the string's length will be twice as fast as its fundamental vibration, vibration over a third will be...
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Tin can telephone (redirect from String telephone)
a taut string or wire. It is a particular case of mechanical telephony, where sound (i.e., vibrations in the air) is converted into vibrations along a...
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Violin (category String section)
Electric violins have a magnetic or piezoelectric pickup that converts string vibration to an electric signal. A patch cable or wireless transmitter sends...
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Normal mode (redirect from Modes of vibration)
correlated the elastic vibrations of a one-dimensional solid with the number of mathematically special modes of vibration of a stretched string (see figure). The...
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technique for stringed instruments, where string vibration is damped by the fingering hand. (Left-handed players use the right hand.) A string is played with...
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key forces the pad to fret the string like a hammer on on a guitar. An electro-magnetic pickup turns the string vibration into an electric current. The...
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