Striking near a string’s fixed end cancels the sound

Evidence

When a string is plucked, it is pulled a small distance away from its rest position and released. The nature of the sound source it provides to the body of the instru­ ment depends in part on the position on the string at which it is plucked. This is directly related to the dis­ placement component modes that a string can adopt. For example, if the string is plucked at the center, as indicated by the central dashed vertical line in Figure 4.6, modes which have a node at the center of the string (the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, etc., or the even modes) are not excited, and those with an antinode at the center (the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, etc., or the odd modes) are maximally excited. — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 1107 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Plucking position on a string determines which harmonic modes are suppressed — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 1107; Plucking a string at a node suppresses every Nth harmonic

Related

• Plucking a string at a node suppresses every Nth harmonic (similarity 0.94)
• Plucking position on a string determines which harmonic modes are suppressed (similarity 0.91)
• Plucking position on a string suppresses modes with nodes there (similarity 0.90)
• Adding mass at a node leaves a vibrating string’s mode unchanged (similarity 0.89)
• Only exact integer-fraction plucking positions completely suppress harmonic modes (similarity 0.86)
• A stringed instrument’s pluck position can be read from harmonic amplitude dips. (similarity 0.84)
• Plucked strings vibrate autonomously after excitation, simplifying their modelling. (similarity 0.81)
• Plucked strings vibrate as a sum of harmonic partials, not as a pure tone (similarity 0.81)
• Plucked string excitation is independent of vibration so it models easily (similarity 0.80)
• A bowed string moves in two straight segments joined at a moving corner (similarity 0.78)
• Every stringed instrument is analyzable as a sound source plus modifiers (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Plucking a string at a node suppresses every Nth harmonic #expands (0.82)
• Plucking position on a string determines which harmonic modes are suppressed #expands (0.78) — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 1107