Bruce Dornfeld wrote: > The sound of a piano is, as we all know, a very complicated system. The > inharmonicity does not come from the piano wire alone. If you bow (if > your violin bow doesn't fit, rosin up a scrap of old felt) a piano > string, the inharmonicity will be less than striking the string with a > piano hammer! The formulas we have for inharmonicity in a piano do not > show these things; they assume the piano will have felt hammers, bridges > and a soundboard fixed on all sides. How much these other > things influence inharmonicity, I don't know, but the image we like to > hold in our mind to understand it normally simplifies things too much. > > > Bruce Dornfeld, RPT Simplifies things too much for what? The available math is quite sufficient for scaling purposes, and we don't typically personally calculate inharmonicity for tunings. Beyond a nominally practical approximation, of what further use do we have for ever more minutely accurate inharmonicity calculations? Ron N
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