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This is what music looks like


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Here's a link to some photographs on the BBC website. They show pictorial representations of the vibrations that occur in a string instrument when it's played. Very interesting and quite beautiful.


[url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13573631"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13573631[/url]

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"Lucy in the Sky, with Diamonds..." :)

Seriously though, very interesting... Holographic Interferometry... that's a new one on me.

"At low frequencies, the guitar plate moves back and forth not unlike the piston of a loudspeaker" - I wonder if this goes some way to explaining the percussive nature of bass tones?

Whatever. Sure looks fun!

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some sweet images. I'm not sure whether the fact that I'm seeing those after a day spent revising vibration (one of my modules for engineering) makes me appreciate them more or less.

Either way, got to love science put to good use!

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