---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Friends, Hep! Hep! (Okay, I grew up in Texas) I need an accurate scientific explanation for why SOME single bass strings g= o=20 yow-yow-yow, when played by themselves. A new customer I am about to go see, with a new Steinway B, said he wanted m= e=20 to maybe replace some bass strings that were "wobbling." I thought, okay,=20 unisons or voicing, but then he said they were singles. I realized I had=20 accepted that sound for decades, and just tuned around it, considering it a=20 shortcoming of shorter scales. Later that day, I listened to 5 B's, 4 L's,=20 and a D, as well as a 7'4" Boesendorfer. All the Steinways had yowing singles, but not necessarily on the same notes.= =20 Some notes would be clear. The D was the best of the Steinways, reasonably=20 clear, and the B=F6sendorfer was extremely clean. The Steinways are single-wrapped and the B=F6s is double-wrapped, but I also= =20 listened to some 126 cm Bostons, which are double-wrapped, and they had=20 random wows too. I've always chalked it up to "inharmonicity" or longitudinal waves or=20 something like that, but I realized that doesn't really work, and now it's=20 driving me crazy not to be able accurately to explain this. What is=20 happening, and why is the B=F6sendorfer so clean? Wobbling in Stockton CA, Bob Davis ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/0e/2a/a4/1b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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