Changing Harmonicity

David C. Stanwood stanwood@tiac.net
Wed, 03 Mar 2004 19:18:27 -0500


>David C. Stanwood wrote:
>> One of those other parameters is Hammer Weight.  It has been reported to me
>> by Vince Mrykalo that increasing the hammer weight reduces inharmonicity
>> significantly.... 
>> 
>> David Stanwood
>> 
>> 
>
>This one I would like to see some data on. Course its going to be real 
>hard to isolate hammer weight alone with no way of measuring density, 
>reliliancy...etc.... so hard actually that I have to wonder just how 
>this claim was arrived at.
>
>Cheers
>RicB

Vince measured the inharmonicity of a note then put a 1.2 gram clip on the
end of the shank then remeasured.  I think he used a verituner...  It's
only one variable that changed...  It would be easy for somebody with some
time and interest to retry the experiment and report to us... 

David Stanwood

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