Struck bars vibrate in non-harmonically related transverse modes

Evidence

Transverse modes are excited in bars that are struck, as, for example, when playing a xylophone or triangle, and these are not harmonically related. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1269

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Branch transverse vibrations are the active oscillators in tree sound absorption. — T. F. W. Embleton, Sound Propagation in Homogeneous…, 2; A vibrating bar’s higher modes fall outside the musical scale and harmonic spacing. — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 1309