<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000EE" vlink="#551A8B" alink="#FF0000">   Hi Tom. Thanks for your input to my queries. I wonder if I might trouble you for a couple other tidbits of information. I am drawing up an essay you see, mostly to sort out my own understanding of some things about tuning that have bothered me for some time. If you want to take a look at what I have so far then check out the page address below. Be advised tho that there are still present some akward wordings, and some statements that are directly wrong. When I get it all right, well then I will have gained the knowledge I am after at this stage. In that regard I'm trying to hunt down the formula for the String Stiffness, and how that relates to String Frequency. I seem to remember some years ago somebody wrote in an attempt to describe inharmonicity, that knowing the string stiffness of any given string would allow one to figure the frequencies of all partials just by reducing the lenght of the string by the appropriate amount in a formula that translated stiffness and lenght into frequencies. Now I know now that this notion of figureing partial frequencies does not hold true. Yet it was a neatly packed in "theoretical" notion that I need for my essay. <a href="http://home.c2i.net/ric/octbehavior.html">http://home.c2i.net/ric/octbehavior.html</a><a href="http://home.c2i.net/ric/octbehavior.html"></a> Thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated. Richard Brekne   </body> </html>