• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Yeah, you can’t tune your bass’s A string to a 440 Hz A. Lol

    With that being said, the phenomenon the meme is referencing is called sympathetic resonance. It is not limited to matching intervals, but will resonate sympathetically at any frequency in the material’s harmonic scale. Any A will make any well-tuned A string resonate (or C#, D, E, or flat B/sharp Bb…), it just may be very low amplitude.