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Alright I work for a Steel fabrication warehouse and My job is rebar.
Today i was looking around for a scrap piece of rebar to use as a lever for something and as I picked it up i hit it on the track for our crane and it made this ringing noise. So I reached up and grabbed the end of it and it stopped vibrating.
So I thought for a second and wondered why on earth it was vibrating int he first place since I was holding on to it already. And the answer came to me clear as day in only the way a complete guitar nerd would figure it out.
I was holding the bar right on the 12th fret harmonic..... Yep I'm a guitar nerd.
I had my hand pretty much right in the middle of the bar. So i tried it again. and it rang even though I was holding it. So I moved my hand a few inches one direction and struck the steel rail again. and it went clunk with no ringing.
I dont know if that means i'm an idiot for not realizing that the same physics can be applied to all sorts of things that are usually applied on gutiar strings. or If i'm just wrong and that they'r enot related at all.
Regardless.. I'm still a guitar nerd.
What do you guys think? Had any experiences like this where something totaly non guitar related got your mind turning and gave you an answer based on your knowledge of guitar physics?
Today i was looking around for a scrap piece of rebar to use as a lever for something and as I picked it up i hit it on the track for our crane and it made this ringing noise. So I reached up and grabbed the end of it and it stopped vibrating.
So I thought for a second and wondered why on earth it was vibrating int he first place since I was holding on to it already. And the answer came to me clear as day in only the way a complete guitar nerd would figure it out.
I was holding the bar right on the 12th fret harmonic..... Yep I'm a guitar nerd.
I had my hand pretty much right in the middle of the bar. So i tried it again. and it rang even though I was holding it. So I moved my hand a few inches one direction and struck the steel rail again. and it went clunk with no ringing.
I dont know if that means i'm an idiot for not realizing that the same physics can be applied to all sorts of things that are usually applied on gutiar strings. or If i'm just wrong and that they'r enot related at all.
Regardless.. I'm still a guitar nerd.
What do you guys think? Had any experiences like this where something totaly non guitar related got your mind turning and gave you an answer based on your knowledge of guitar physics?