Anywhere the string makes contact with the guitar can have an effect on tuning stability. What we want is unencumbered travel and string vibration – not restrictive debris and sharp edges.

Sound is actually a vibration. A vibration is when an object moves backwards and forwards very, very quickly – like this guitar string. The movement causes the air to vibrate out in all ...

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering ... This generates a voltage that varies with the frequency of the string’s vibration. Funnily enough, this type of pickup will work ...

Sometimes you can see the source of the sound vibrating, like a guitar string, drum or a loudspeaker, but other times it’s notso obvious, like the floor vibrating when you drop something on to it.