Talk:Sympathetic string

Content merged in from resonant strings April 29, 2007. Interwiki links are to both resonant strings and sympathetic string. -- phoebe/ (talk) 01:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Mr. Ilike2beanonymus is right,just plain folk is easier than 'folkloristic'. I don't really like the simpleton, backwater associations raised by using that word plainly (anything not found in a full symphony orchestra is a folk-instrument). I prefer the French word 'musiques savantes' but is too high brow and has to be explained, hence me tryin' somethin' else..thanks for proofreading it, any more comments? cheers, Martinuddin (talk) 23:03, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Narciso Yepes on the viola d'amore
"Many people have said to me that this [the ten-string guitar] is the same principle as that used for the viola d'amore . . . . But there was a problem with that instrument: the tuning - of both the bowed strings above and the sympathetic strings below was [centred on the tones of D, A, and F] and the F was either sharp or natural, depending on whether the key of the piece was D major or D minor. Thus, when you played a D, you had not only the sound of that one string, but also the sound of all the other Ds on the instrument, so you had a very big D! But, when you played G, for example, you had absolutely nothing in the way of resonance. My idea of the 10-string guitar is exactly the contrary - to provide sympathetic vibration for the notes that do not have this kind of reinforcement on a normal 6-string guitar." (Yepes 1978: 46)

Yepes, Narciso. 1978. "The 10-String Guitar: Overcoming the Limitations of Six Strings". Interview by Larry Snitzler. Guitar Player 12(3): pp. 26, 42, 46, 48, 52.

Viktor van Niekerk (talk) 03:52, 9 March 2008 (UTC)


 * That being the case, how about if we omit mention of the viola d'amore in this context, and simply say that Yepes' instrument was designed to use sympathetics to balance the instrument across its compass, or something like that? +ILike2BeAnonymous (talk) 04:01, 9 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Agreed, which is exactly why I removed the reference to viola d'amore. Problem solved? Viktor van Niekerk (talk) 04:12, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merge: String resonance → Sympathetic string
The string resonance article currently only describes the specific process of "sympathetic string resonance" (strings indirectly vibrating due to other vibrating strings), and not the more general "string resonance" (the underlying mechanism of all string instruments). This is probably because the terms "resonance" and "sympathetic resonance" are often conflated in casual musical contexts, even though resonance describes a much broader phenomenon. Concretely, all strings undergo resonance to produce sound, and the pitch of the sound is the resonant frequency. In certain instances this may cause sympathetic resonance, but not always. Also, the section "Overtones due to string resonance on the koto" should probably be omitted from the merge as it's too specific for either topic and would probably fit better in string harmonics (if anywhere) 30103db (talk) 20:38, 25 October 2021 (UTC)