XPost: rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic   
   From: raf_seibert@cox.net   
      
   jgoska wrote:   
   > I was looking at this month's Flatpicker Magazine and then looked at   
   > the cover and realized that it was Acoustic Guitar Magazine, but it has   
   > a flatpicker for and editor now, and it is now all articles on How to   
   > Flatpick Good.  I do make some effort to keep up with the times, so I   
   > have gone out and purchased a flatpick, although the sales girl said I   
   > looked "kind of old" to be buying one.  I have run into a couple of   
   > problems.  On page 91, flatpicker Richard Johnson explains that short   
   > scale guitars have "more fundamental overtones."  This has me stumped.   
   > Can any flatpicker explain what a fundamental overtone is?.  The other   
   > problem is that flatpicking uses two symbols, one of which looks like a   
   > "V" and the other looks something like a table.  The magazine explains   
   > that the table means stroke down and the V means stroke up, but its the   
   > old problem on the guitar, if you stroke down physically (towards your   
   > leg), you are stroking up musically (towards the high strings), and if   
   > you stroke down musically (towards the low strings) you are stroking up   
   > physically (towards your chin), so I am stumped again, and I am afraid   
   > that I might be playing these tunes upside down.  Any help would be   
   > appreciated.  Thank you.   
   >   
      
      
   After the fun, overtones are harmonics higher than the base tone a   
   string makes, its fundamental.  So, a guitar might exhibit more   
   fundamentals, or more overtones.  It's semantics.   
      
   I think you interpreted the symbols correctly.  The table means stroke   
   toward the floor, and the V, stroke toward your chin.   
      
   	-Raf   
      
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