String Question

[Stephen Airy]

>From what I understand from the Reblitz book, aren't
false beats caused by improper seating or notching at
the bridge pins?  I think this would seem to have the
effect of slightly changing the string length as it's
vibrating cause the string makes contact with the
bridge AND pin then with the pin only or with the far
side of the pin (away from speaking length) or the
close side of the pin....   Correct me if I'm wrong...

--- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
wrote:
> 
> 
> Delwin D Fandrich wrote:
> 
> > ->
> > > When two strings of different size are in the
> same unison, it cause false
> > beats.
> >
> > What you're hearing is not actually a false beat,
> but a real beat in the
> > harmonics which become enharmonic because of the
> difference in inharmonicity
> > between two wires of different diameters.
> >
> > --ddf
> 
> Hmm.. this brings up the question then of just what
> is a false beat. A single
> string with two coincident segments that have 
> different frequencies at the same
> tension would seem to be a "real beat" by the
> definition above. And perhaps it
> is more correct to refer to that situation as
> such... but then what of false
> beats are left to be actually false..?
> 
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> 
> 


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