Timeline for What is the (approximate) function for amplitude of a plucked string over time? Does it differ between string types?
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| Dec 17, 2018 at 21:10 | comment | added | Seph Reed | Hmmmm... so, on the modes scale, there might be a Sitar on one end and perhaps a harp on the other. Perhaps smearing is an applicable term. I'll see if I can't look out for this effect as I hear instruments. Thanks again. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 17:46 | comment | added | Dietrich Epp | @SephReed: I'm not sure how more modes would sound in general, but one of the ways you do get more modes is by having more strings. Because the strings will not be perfectly in tune with each other, you will get "beating" as they go in and out of phase with each other. I would describe this as sounding thicker or richer. For a piano, the low notes usually have one string, the middle notes two strings, and the high notes have three. You can hear the (sudden) differences as you go up or down the piano, although the piano will also switch between wound and unwound strings at some point. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 16:46 | comment | added | Seph Reed | Wow! This is a really amazing answer. You mentioned that the line segments are modes. How might a string with more or less modes sound? Is it twangy-er with more modes? Or are the modes more a factor of how it's played? (like piano hammer -> 3 strings transferring energy -> 3 in tune strings fading -> body and other strings sync) or (bow scraping violin string -> string removing chaos from scrape -> body and string syncing) | |
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| Dec 17, 2018 at 2:42 | history | answered | Dietrich Epp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |