The rise in pitch when the string is depressed (fingered) is more to do
with the increase in its tension, not lengthening. Or rather both but
the effect from the latter is negligible.
AB
Martyn Hodgson wrote:
I am extremely sceptical about this claim, if only for the
insignificant change in pitch which would be achieved by an additional
depression of say 0.5mm (ie from stopping the string without bottoming
to the fingerboard and fully depressed) . By way of an example: the
increase in string length of a 64cm string depressed at half its length
by 0.5mm is only about 0.0008mm! (Pythagorus theorem: square root of
[320x320+0.5x0.5]) ie an increase of a mere 0.000125% ..............
can any human ear detect this?
MH
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