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You should have resisted, Big T. Be carefull to what you agree! ;-)
-Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff
To:
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 10:09 PM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] String Tension, was Re: Tone Control question
Yeah what he said, below
sorry couldn't resist :-)
Jeff(bigtikidude)--- In , "Marty
Tippens" <mctippens@e...> wrote:
> Actually, Brian, the wave analysis of vibrating guitar strings is
fairly well understood. When the displacement of the string is
relatively small, as it is with vibrating musical instrument strings,
the partial differential equation can be approximated as "linear"
which simplifies it greatly.
>
> I have trouble with the notion that the equation for Frequency as a
function of Length, Tension and Density should have an additional
variable of anchoring distance or anchoring angle. Sustain and
dampening are affected by those additional variables due to the
different way pressure is put on the bridge. I'm not so sure that
frequency would be affected. If it were, the variables of anchoring
distance and/or anchoring angle would be very negligible.
>
> -Marty
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian Neal
> To:
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 7:16 PM
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] String Tension, was Re: Tone Control
question
>
>
> --- In , John McCorvey
> <eddiekatcher@y...> wrote:
> > Boy Brian, I am impressed....one question, in the case
> > of a Jazzmaster, Jaguar, or any other guitar where the
> > strings pass over a bridge and are anchored behind as
> > say the mentioned, doesn't this additional length add
> > an additional variable to your equation.....
>
> Yeah I'm sure it does...but I have no idea how to characterize
that.
> I am *really* on shaky physics ground now and had probably just
better
> shut up. :-) You could probably say that the Jazzmaster would
have a
> longer *effective* string length compared to a Strat because of
the
> string length behind the bridge, even though it doesn't
contribute as
> much because it is bent over the bridge. And maybe as a result you
> would get *slighly* lower string tension than a strat. But again,
I
> should just shut up here...I can hear the ice cracking under my
feet...
>
> My physics professor in college was undertaking all kinds of crazy
> measurements of vibrating strings in musical instruments.
Apparently
> if you look really close, it's not a well understood phenomenon.
>
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