How does a guitar make so many different notes?
Six Strings, Infinite Songs
How does a guitar make so many different notes?
A guitar has only six strings. Yet somehow, a single guitar can play thousands of different notes — gentle whispers, soaring melodies, rumbling bass lines. How does it squeeze an entire universe of sound out of six pieces of wire?
The secret starts with vibration. When you pluck a guitar string, it shivers back and forth hundreds of times per second. That vibration pushes the air around it, and your ear hears those air pushes as sound. Fast vibrations make high notes. Slow vibrations make low notes.
