"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
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Sounds good to me, I don't belive tension (or compression) has anything
to with the speed of transmission in a solid.


Assume a completely rigid guitar neck. Adjusting the tension of the string
adjusts its resonant frequency. If the length does not change, but the
resonant frequency does, then the velocity in the string must change.

C = tension/linear density

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