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Re: standing waves

Why? (you mean the higher modes are not harmonics, or the harmonic modes are
not strongly attenuated?)

bc

P.s. what's the history of Bessel and drum head modes? What series describes
the non-harmonic tuning fork modes?


Tom Ford wrote:

It has been pointed out that for a good fork, higher modes (not harmonics)
will quickly damp out.