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

  • A
    Eighth
  • B
    Fourth
  • C
    Third
  • D
    Second

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