Seating/false beats

[Richard Moody]

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> From: Susan Kline <skline@proaxis.com>
> To: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Re: Seating/false beats
> Date: Tuesday, April 22, 1997 6:50 PM
>
>
Replying to,

> >> >> If there were a super lubricant that got you zero friction
> >between
> >> >the strings and pins,
> >> > When struck, the pitch would vary wildly as the
> >> >string rendered back and forth freely through the pins.
>
> Actually, in the never-land of ZERO friction, the pitch wouldn't
vary at
> all, since the tension of all segments would remain identical. Or
so it
> seems to me.
>
> {{ :--> )  Susan

Same here.  And in the reality of  friction present, equal tensioned
segments comprise the string that can't be knocked out.
Richard