Residual sound after muting strings

[terahertz]

When I pluck the open B string of my acoutic guitar and mute it immediately together with all other string, I could hear a high frequency residual sound from the guitar. With a capo placed on the first fret and repeat the action, there is no residual sound.

Did anyone encounter this phenomenal? Thanks.

[Dave Hicks]

Perhaps you're accidentally playing a harmonic? Another possibility, easy to test, is that string between the tuner and the nut is ringing. Use a finger or piece of cloth to mute that section and see if the problem disappears.

D.H.

[Jim Owen]

Originally Posted by Dave Hicks

Perhaps you're accidentally playing a harmonic? Another possibility, easy to test, is that string between the tuner and the nut is ringing. Use a finger or piece of cloth to mute that section and see if the problem disappears.

D.H.

My bet is on the string between tuner and nut.

[fitness1]

My comments remains the same as your other thread on this a couple days ago - very common.

[Howard Emerson]

Originally Posted by terahertz

When I pluck the open B string of my acoutic guitar and mute it immediately together with all other string, I could hear a high frequency residual sound from the guitar. With a capo placed on the first fret and repeat the action, there is no residual sound.

Did anyone encounter this phenomenal? Thanks.

It's called a sympathetic vibration, and it is the reason I have a piece of felt under the strings, in back of the nut, on all my guitars.

It's even more prevalent with open tunings, which I use almost exclusively.

Consider yourself lucky that you can hear the ringing. At some point it may go away....

Best,
Howard Emerson

[Jim Owen]

Howard is correct. A lot of us lose that frequency later in life. Meanwhile, a piece of something soft will do the trick.