Unlike a laboratory sonometer, a stringed instrument is seldom plucked in the middle. Supposing a sitar string is plucked at about $\frac{1}{4}th$ of its length from the end. The most prominent harmonic would be

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(d) When plucked at one fourth it gives two loops, and hence 2$^{nd}$ harmonic is produced.

Q. Unlike a laboratory sonometer, a stringed instrument is seldom plucked in the middle. Supposing a sitar string is plucked at about $\frac{1}{4}th$ of its length from the end. The most prominent harmonic would be

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