---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Joe & Penny Goss wrote: > Del, > The bass and other strings that have the hammers angled to the string will > have a different strike point measurement from the termination points of > bridge and agraff/capo bar. This causes to my ear the distortion of the > sound of the unison much like phasing of unlevel strings. As a double bass > player, I long ago discovered that one could divide the string into 1/2 > 1/3 1/4 segments and play the overtone series , but also divide the > string into smaller segments and draw out a diatonic scale of the upper > partials of the string. Moving the finger lightly along the string only a > small fraction of an inch will make the change occur. > With the string line angled one way and the hammers the other will MHO > cause what I believe Roger is referring to especially on bass strings that > are already too short to produce a good sound. > Joe Goss Joe, Ideally the nodes of diatonic scale correspond with the just intervals: 3:2, 4:3, 5:4, etc. I, too have discovered these nodes, and with some practice as a distasteful guitar and bass player can excite two at a time (the higher nodes with a surface considerably smaller than a finger). However, excluding nodes (as the hammer will do) at 1/9 or even 1/8 +/- 1mm max with a big ol' compressing bass hammer?! I could run it on Excel on a Whitney spinet bass string pair to see what separate partials it can exclude...and anyways, could these two strings produce a "good sound?" Respectfully, without checking this data, I disagree. Clark Panaccione ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/0b/b1/34/d6/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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