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Strange sounds when you hit a metal rod

2013-02-16

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When you hit an aluminium rod it vibrates in at least two distinct ways and you can hear that as two different sounds.

Here's colcol83ful's image from the comments:

http://imgur.com/Y4hGdP9

Great analysis, thanks colcol!

- Music written by Tom Cusack