Pitch in Paris ca. 1860

Ron Nossaman rnossaman@cox.net
Sun, 01 May 2005 19:49:57 -0500


> OOh,
> The more tension the longer the string thinks it is in its total length,
> more actual length and less termination influence.
> So that is why inharmonicity lowers after a pitch raise?
> Joe Goss RPT

Beats me. I never figured out how people think, let alone strings. 
<G> The presumably generally accepted math, however, says 
inharmonicity drops as pitch rises. Until everyone starts reporting 
being able to slide feeler gages under the inharmonicity after a 
pitch raise, I'll stick with this.

Ron N

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