> Hi Jude, > Explain, please. Too little inharmonicity by what standard, and arrived at > how? > > Ron N > Hi Ron, Sure, I'll try. Too little inharmonicity by the standard of what is generally considered to be good strong fundamental bass tone, and arrived at according to Dr. Sanderson's formula. I stick to the ranges that he originally presented in his handout. I'm not saying it's the Holy Grail but that it's a reasonable parameter to observe. Dr. Sanderson did an experiment where he designed a set of strings with 0 inharmonicity. I was unfortunately not a primary aural witness to the end result so my "observations" are hearsay. So I, too, ask myself, well if this set of strings sounded so bad, what were the other factors (T,Z, S, NT/H etc). I'm thinking that I can repeat the experiment for a few unisons on one of my own pianos and let my own ears be the judge. Will, The other factor that I was thinking about today was the load on your bass bridges. These cantilevers prefer a particularly light load. I'm finding that on a healthy board, you have to set the distance bearing so that the string just barely misses contacting the bridge by the time it contacts the counterbearing. When the treble bridge is loaded, the bass bridge will rise a bit to give you that ever so slight bearing angle. Maybe you can get your Wixey gage on it. Jude
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