<!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 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Richard Brenke wrote:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>  "<FONT face="Times New Roman" = size=3>that would seem to me to make the string tend towards<BR>being less stiff... = which would raise the inharmonicity..... but..."</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Richard, wouldn't a = less stiff wire result in "lower" inharmonicity?  Could you perhaps tell me = where I'm wrong on this? I was under the impression that inharmonicity goes up as = the shorter segments of the wire vibrating at the higher partials becomes proportionally thicker, thus stiffer. </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin E. Ramsey<BR><A href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A> </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>