Prof. Jim Woodhouse: Introduction to the basic physics of stringed musical instruments Part 2

Part 2: Vibration modes
Introduces the idea of vibration modes via the modes of a circular drum, and illustrates how these modes can be combined to describe the transient response of the drum when struck at a particular position.
Visit Prof. Woodhouse's Science of Musical Instruments website euphonics.org/ to explore these topics in more depth.

[@musichong]

Professor, do you know the bowed musical instrument - erhu, a kind of two-stringed instrument, it has a tiny bridge on the skin center, and the horsehair bow plays the strings from a crossing angle on the resonator, we find the acoustic sound changes from a lower frequency to high, the volume are not balanced, on other words, the high-frequency similar muted, I hopefully want to learn the principle, why? It's different from the drum, but it has a drum-like resonator, but the bridge on the center and two strings over the bridge produce pressure, similar to stopping the skin vibration. If you want to learn more about the musical instrument, I could take a short video. Thanks!

[@Swamp_Donkey_]

so creating a transient vibration of the drumhead by combining modal vibration is something like creating a waveform with a combination of sine waves?