<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In my effort to understand clearly the = scaling problems, I would like to be able to measure the real inharmonicity of a = real string in a real piano (that is : not guessing it following a = theoretical model formula).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I own a Verituner and would like to = check if I understood things right.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is it so, that with the Verituner, when = you disable all "style" extra stretchings, you get the actual reading for all = harmonics on the A4 note relative to it's fundamental ?  If I got it right, all = other notes are not actual readings, but so called targets, that is ideal = values which you should reach by tuning their fundamental with an offset compared to = their theoretical value.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I understand that when the = Verituner reads, in fine mode,  for A3 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1 : -3.49</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2 : -2.34</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3 : -0.74</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>4 : +0.98</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>etc.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it means that the fundamental of A3 = should be tuned 3.49 cents lower than it's theoretical value in order to achieve the = best tuning (best compromized matching between all partials), I'm not sure though = what 2 : -2.34 really means.  Does it mean that, reported to the actual = value of the fundamental frequency of A3 when well tuned following the verituner = algorithm, the second partial is actually -2.34 - (-3.49) = +1.15 cents above = it's theoretical value (which is simply the double of the frequency of the fundamental) ?  Or is it a target again ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for enlighting.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best regards.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stéphane Collin.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Time has no respect for what you do = without it.)</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>