Music Instrument Playing - 2D String Physics

Finger: Shorten

Finger

Readouts

Fundamental-

Note-

Vibrating length-

Wave speed c-

Wavelength 2L-

Partial 2 / 2f1-

Harmonic spectrum

Bars = amplitude of partials 1 to 24 (dB, live).

Pick-up waveform (slow-motion time)

Presets

Parameters

f_n = n f₁√(1+Bn²), f₁ = √(T/μ)/(2L). Touching the string lightly at a node (1/2, 1/3, 1/4 of its length) lets only the partials that share that node ring: a natural harmonic.