Floating guitar strings
Magnets. How do they work? Quite well it seems.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Wed 28 Jan 2026, 15:51,
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Wed 28 Jan 2026, 15:52,
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Interesting concept poorly executed.
Wasted potential for science communication regarding magnetic fields, structural/material design, ergonomics and safety, especially considering all of the stupid decisions and lack of research demonstrated in this infuriating video.
Thankfully the guitar itself sounds like absolute shite.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 28 Jan 2026, 18:27,
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I designed something that could tune by adjusting the length of the strings
Isn't this what the tuners on the head do?
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Not quite...
Please assume for the sake of brevity I'm describing *ideal* materials and perfectly spherical cows.
With machine head tuning the distance between bridge and nut (defining the open string length) remains constant. At the other end, those bridge saddles finely adjust the bridge-nut distance per string while having negligible effect on the tension.
As you tighten the string there's less of it exposed so you can say *its* length has changed - but only over a given, constant distance. The bridge-nut length has not changed, nor has the distance between nut and tuning peg, only the angle of rotation of the tuning peg itself (which the string will always take the same approach to). The strings stretch and compress but they cover the same distance, so we call that a change in tension. Pressing the frets will change the functional string length, but with only negligible change to the tension.
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