Seating/false beats

[Richard Moody]

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> From: Ron Nossaman <nossaman@southwind.net>
> To: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Re: Seating/false beats
> Date: Saturday, April 19, 1997 12:40 PM
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> Hi Susan & all,
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> If there were a super lubricant that got you zero friction between
the strings and pins, the string would, indeed, stay down on the
bridge when at rest. When struck, the pitch would vary wildly as the
string rendered back and forth freely through the pins.

Granted there is no zero friction execpt in the imaginary.  So in
reality  does the pitch vary less wildly as the string renders less
freely through the pins according to how much friction is present?

R Moody .