Inharmonicity - so what actually causes it ?

[Kent Swafford]

Dick Beaton wrote:

>Hi all.
>The real answer to inharmonicity is........a piano string acts like it is
>shorter than it really is....think about it......
>Dick MT

Indeed, and the vibrating sections of the string that define each of the 
partials are progressively shorter and shorter than might be expected, 
making the partials progressively sharper and sharper up through the 
partial series.

Kent Swafford