I wrotes: >> With three strings struck, there is a tertiary transfer created which >is far more complex and contains more resultant modes of vibration, and the > three strings will never be totally in phase. Ron writes: >Again, in theory, but I'm not sure that is the case in the piano. Of course > they can be in phase and not be in acceptable tune, but you already know >that. Um, I am not sure I do know that. If you have different rates of vibration, how are they going to be in phase? If the differences were large enough to form multiples of one another, I could see it, but if you have a string going at 500 Hz and another at 501, they won't have a very easy time of getting together, will they? Ed
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