Talk:Long-string instrument

"Incredibly"?

This article refers to "incredibly long strings". Why can't the article tells us specifically how long the strings are? I don't know what lengths the person who wrote this considers "incredible". Five miles? 20 feet? What? Michael Hardy (talk) 22:45, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

80 or 90 feet, according to external sources (e.g. http://www.lycos.com/info/string-instrument--long-string-instrument.html). Someone with a better understanding than mine should update this article. Cema (talk) 22:36, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Music sample

The sample (http://www.newalbion.com/NA102/) is not available. Cema (talk) 22:33, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Looks like it would now be (http://www.newalbion.com/NA_CDS/NA102/NA102.htm), but there doesn't appear to be a sample available there. Dougher (talk) 03:18, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

photo?

This article needs a photo, diagram, or video showing this instrument. --Jtir (talk) 18:58, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Petchboo. --Jtir (talk) 21:26, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Longitudinal Waves?

Longitudinal waves are just a fancy way of saying sound waves. Upon reading "longitudinal waves" my first reaction is "wait, what sort of waves does a *violin* make? Is this thing so big it makes a different classification of wave?" No. It's misleading and confusing by its' overspecificity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.186.99.234 (talk) 04:44, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Not really. The attack tone on long string instruments is longitudinal and can also be recognized in the upper cables of a train, when it is still distanced. The high pitched shooting sound is longitudinal, not transversal. The article is heavily biased by the way. Fullman is just one example. There are tons of people who have built this kind of stuff. I've doubts if Fullman or Paul Panhuysen was the first. Don't know, but both did a lot of pioneering work on this typical instrument. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.210.223.202 (talk) 10:54, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Space contains three dimensions, so there is always more than one way to move an object over another. Similarly a "*violin*" string is capable of being rubbed in more than one direction, and capable of making more than one kind of sound. If one is confused by "longitudinal waves" one should look up "longitudinal". Calling an instrument with 80 foot strings "typical" is "misleading and confusing". Hyacinth (talk) 10:22, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

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