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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Guitar
The reason why the guitar is my favourite instrument is because it's really flexible in how you want to make it sound. It's really a very simple instrument if you think about it. Just a box with six strings pulled taut across a neck. But it's amazing what one can do with a it.

The harmonics are what I like best about the guitar. When a string is touched across certain points along the string and then made to vibrate, the string can't vibrate at it's fundamental frequency and hence is forced to vibrate at the frequency of that nodal point only. This causes the pure, bell like timbre of the note produced well, at least that's how I think it works).

Well, I'm not great at guitar, but here's a vid of me messing around with tapped harmonics. Hope you don't think it's sucky (like the harmonica vid I posted lol).

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