No, it's not. Think again or perhaps watch this little video that may help you to get an idea what happens when one's fiddling about with strings in-between frets:
[1]http://tinyurl.com/cfajt5 AB ----- Original Message ----- From: [2]Martyn Hodgson To: [3]Alexander Batov Cc: [4]l...@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: String depression But the rise in pitch is the direct result of an increase in length --- On Thu, 19/3/09, Alexander Batov <[5]alexander.ba...@vihuelademano.com> wrote: From: Alexander Batov <[6]alexander.ba...@vihuelademano.com> Subject: [LUTE] Re: String depression To: Cc: [7]l...@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Thursday, 19 March, 2009, 9:07 PM 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 -- References 1. http://tinyurl.com/cfajt5 2. mailto:hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk 3. mailto:alexander.ba...@vihuelademano.com 4. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 5. mailto:alexander.ba...@vihuelademano.com 6. mailto:alexander.ba...@vihuelademano.com 7. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
