
Stick
A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail
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How Does Sound Come From Guitar Strings?
Sound is caused by things that vibrate, right? That's basically it. We can hear up to something that vibrates 20 thousand times a second thereabouts. The more instructive instrument would be a violin because violins work through friction. When you first start to drag the bow across, the string is actually stuck to the bow with static friction. But as the string moves further and further away from equilibrium, the force that’s trying to restore the string back to equilibrium is getting great greater and greater. You're basically twanging a string in like 200 words. Ye, repeatedly twanging. It's funny you should say nails down a blackboard, ecause i think it
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