  == Y Shaped Strings ==  Interesting take, without seeing any experimental evidence I think that this assertion may be true. The separate sections of the Y should be considered as separate independent sinusoidal sources that partially conform to the strings with bounded nodes while the center point being considered a partially bounded node with additional degrees of freedom. These strings would most likely NOT be able to produce pure single tone sinusoids but would produce superposed sinusoids directly. Similarly  when an open string is lightly touched, thus reducing a degree of freedom, at the center of the string length, the fundamental will be quieted leaving only the 2nd and above harmonics. Similar effects occur when touched at other nodal points. This subject would be experimentally interesting and most likely provide substantiating evidence supporting this discussion concerning the corrections of long standing fallacies that have been, at least temporarily, corrected in this page.   