Cents is a construct that divides an octave into 1200 equal units. Sorta like ...well.. there are 60 minutes in an hour... and there are 1200 cents to an octave. In this regard Cents and Hertz have nothing in common. It is very usefull in many ways to relate tuning work to cents.. tho nothing can compare to good old beats per second for absolute clarity...grin.. (speaking for meself dont you know..hehe..) There are conversion formulas available, and I have them laying around somewhere.. I will send them off to you when I get time to find them. Richard Moody has a cute little "calcuator" for doing this I believe. It also figures string inharmonicity. I am sure he'd be delighted to send you a copy. Doug Mahard wrote: > Can some one take the time to enlighten me how cents correlates with hertzs. > Hertz is a vibrational measurement in seconds, is cents a smaller > measurement of hertz? > > Totally in the dark. > > Doug Mahard -- Richard Brekne Associate PTG, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway
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