Thanks, Srich, for your replication of my experiment. I imagine that only people with sticking strings will have a chance of getting the results that I did. Incidentally, I described the Teflon experiment to a friend who plays second violin in an orchestra and has a PhD. in physics. He said that he moves the bridge on his violin to a point (a variable distance between the bridge and the string terminations) where that short piece of string forms a harmonic with the rest of the string. This tells me that the transmission of energy from the main strings is modulated by the short strings below the bridge, and I would assume that this should be the case at the headstock too.
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