[CAUT] temperature and pitch

[Laurence Libin]

Re: [CAUT] temperature and pitchCertainly many anecdotes are true, but hard data  are needed to verify general principles. The stories we've been reading would be useful guides to designing experiments in a controlled environment where temperature, humidity, pitch, and other variables could be accurately measured. Of course every piano is a special case, but we shouldn't have to guess about such basic issues.
Laurence 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ed Sutton 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 12:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] temperature and pitch


  It's not an easy up or down, same for all pianos answer.
  Therefore, we have many anecdotes passed on as truth.
  es
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Laurence Libin 
    To: caut at ptg.org 
    Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:34 AM
    Subject: Re: [CAUT] temperature and pitch


    The plural of 'ancedote' isn't 'data.'  Haven't there been any controlled experiments to answer this question definitively? Seems like a useful undergraduate project in materials science and engineering.

    Laurence

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