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SYMPATHY
Created from Sympathetic resonance Sympathetic resonance is a harmonic phenomenon in which one passively vibrating body responds to external vibrations with which it has a harmonic likeness — a second tuning fork ringing because the first was struck across the room, a sitar's drone strings voicing the notes played on its melody strings. The effect requires matched or simple-integer-ratio frequencies, and is the acoustic root of instruments with sympathetic strings (viola d'amore, sitar, hardanger fiddle, piano). Silence, under this law, is a state the room has not yet found the right note for.
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April 19, 2026

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