Pat and all, If you experiment with plucking strings, you will be shocked to find, as I was, that you can produce different pitches in the string by plucking at different points. In the absence of measuring and testing, which I am not equipped to do, I assume that plucking at different spots on the string excites different partials which, of course, have slightly different pitches. Ken Burton "Doctor Piano" Calgary Alberta On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Bonifield/Poulson wrote: > > Dear Jim: I usually pluck the strings of the top octave in tuning > them, but I wonder sometimes if the same pitch is produced that way. > Sometimes is seems that the note is sharper when struck by the hammer > than when plucked. Is this one of my many delusions, or have others > seen thes phenomenon? Pat Poulson >
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