Oh good grief...

I'm not strumming - and even if I was this has NOTHING to do with
polarity -  I'm plucking a single string to create a near sine wave
which is being mixed with the near sine wave from my guitar tuner. If I
pluck a string and then switch the polarity on the pickup, the polarity
instantly switches 180 degrees. By simultaneously turning the machine
head tuner I vary the pitch without changing the polarity.


Obviously, the two sine waves are not perfectly "in phase" with each
other except by pure chance...but, unlike pitch, timbre and amplitude
we can't directly hear "phase" - just as well really otherwise the ONLY
musical instrument we would be able to tolerate would be a single signal
generator...


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Phil Leigh
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