What is happening
You are called to a sitar being tuned before a recording session.
The tuner reads far off pitch. The wave travels the string at 246 m/s, and the fundamental wavelength is fixed at 1.2 m by the bridge spacing.
Tuning a stringRunning
Wave speed produced
463.68m/s
String wave speed
246m/s
Wave console. Frequency at 386.4 Hz. Wave speed produced 463.68 m/s, String wave speed 246 m/s. Currently wave speed produced is over by 217.68 m/s.
What has to balance