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- From: pquince@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Quince)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: Harmonics
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:50:06 GMT
- Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL
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- poidoug@austin.ibm.com writes:
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- >I didn't know what harmonics were so I asked about them.
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- >According to my teacher.... [etc.]
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- >Does anyone out there have anything to add to this?
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- If you fret with your left hand on the 2nd fret and touch
- the pad of your right index finger to the 14th fret and
- reach back toward the bridge with your right thumb or your
- right ring finger and tick the string, any string, all three
- of these actions simultaneously, you will find that you
- get the octave harmonic of that string at that fret. You
- can play entire songs using just harmonics.
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- Because a string which is vibrating at a harmonic pitch
- has nodes, places along the string which do not vibrate
- much, you will find that electric guitar pickups will
- respond differently according to where they are placed
- in relation to such nodes. For example, if you have a
- neck pickup directly under the node of a string vibrating
- at some harmonic frequency, you will not get much signal
- out of the pickup because the node point is not doing much
- inside that pickup's magnetic field. This can have bearing
- on trying to tune a strat using harmonics, for example.
-
- This is what I have to add. (This is also a test.)
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- pquince
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