frequencies

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Tue Feb 12 01:03 MST 2002


Richard West wrote:

> Hi, Everyone,
>
> Is there anyone out there who has the formula for calculating the
> frequencies of the partials of a string in a piano taking into account
> the inharmonicity of the string?  A-440, for example--the actual
> frequency of the second partial must be 880.??? or 881.???  At this
> point I'm only interested in the plain wire strings.  I know bass string
> formulas get to be pretty complex.
>
> Richard West

McFerrin has a nice easy to work with formula. I will see if I can write it
out later on this evening.





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