<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Mar 19, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">This type of false beat only happens in the higher frequency areas of the piano, with the smaller diameter pins. That's why you don't get loose pin beats in the lower half of the scale. It's only in the top half that the flagpoling frequency can be close enough to the string frequency to make the beat audible.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Hi Ron,</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Do you think there is an audible effect in the lower half of the scale? If so, how would you describe it? Power loss due to lack of focus?<BR><DIV><DIV>Regards,</DIV><DIV>Fred Sturm</DIV><DIV>University of New Mexico</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>