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Old 10-12-2011, 01:06 PM
Glennwillow Glennwillow is offline
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Originally Posted by Alan Carruth View Post
...Really, though, a string can vibrate at quite a large number of frequencies, all at the same time, and usually does. ... real strings have some stiffness, and that shifts the frequencies of the higher vibrations upward in pitch a little from where they 'should' be. ...
Great stuff! You can actually see this effect of a string going slightly sharp after the initial attack with a good clamp-on digital tuner.

- Glenn
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