I think the tension and the forces you need for Guitar stings to be tuned to the right pitches will be way to high for magnets to hold Also, it must impact the way the stings vibrate, when plucked. In a regular Guitar, the ends are fixed and the string gets elastically stretched and displaced, when plucked, picked or strummed, and the solid material wants to return to it's unstreched state and place, initiation the vibration. Inertia makes it go past the inital, place and so on. With hovering magnets, you would either have to generate a force so strong that the ends of the strings wouldnt move or the strings would end up pulling the magnets closer together when plucked. So picking the strings would not result in stretching of the strings but the displacement of the middle of the string would lead to shortening of the distance between the ends. When bouncing back, I suppose that the magnetifc field would quickly dampen the oscillation, resulting in little to no sound or just short ones, being generated.
2 weeks ago (edited) | 25
Hhmm, I don't think magnets will be enough on their own to retain full tension. Cool idea though! Maybe they could be incorporated in a different way
2 weeks ago | 12
The mad scientist of music. Make some superconducting superstrings and prove string theory.
2 weeks ago | 6
You are going to have a butterfly effect on cool anime style instruments in the future. All because of your experiments.
1 week ago | 3
You may use mechanical advantage of levers if you want to increase the force with the same magnets... it may also help to optimise a bit the overall distribution of the strings? Cool ideas as usual ;)
1 week ago | 3
Very interested to see how this turns out because of how much you have to tighten strings to tune them, can’t wait for the update! Tell tako the world says hi.
1 week ago | 0
Sorry bro, but ever since you adopted Tako, he’s all we think about. Maybe you should just change your channel to you doing cool things with Tako.
1 week ago | 3
waiat i have an 💡 make pianos keys floating using type of structure good luck plz like this comment make this happen haahhaah jk 😅
2 weeks ago | 2
It looks SUPER cool. Maybe there are other instrument strings that require less tension than guitar strings do?
1 week ago | 1
Connect all strings to a fixed piece of steel, tune them, then remove the steel from the guitar and pull on it with2 electromagnets. Should be able to get the right tenaion, no idea what it will spund like though.
1 week ago | 0
I just had an idea. What if you combine a strong magnet and 6 electromagnetic posts. The strong magnet provides the majority of the tension, while the 6 electromagnetic posts add additional, fine-tunable magnetic fields
1 week ago | 0
Attach wood to top of magnet to loop string through, then 3D print guides between each strings magnet?
1 week ago | 0
Mattias Krantz
I’ve been experimenting with the idea of making guitar strings magnetically hover/float — so they’re not actually attached to the bridge at all. Only the magnetic force holds the strings in place. I made a video where I try different magnets and posted it to see what you engineers think. Right now, I feel like it has potential, but due to physics, the effect doesn’t look as cool as I’d like it to.
Here’s the video where I test a bunch of magnets — from weak to finger-crushing power
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