source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 07:09:24 -0800 Subject: stretching of strings From: William Sethares A couple of days ago, someone asked how close to harmonic real strings are. One early article that addressed this is R. Young, ``Inharmonicity of plain piano wire," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 24, 267-273 (1952). Young shows that the partials of piano wire are ``stretched" by a factor of about 1.0013, which is about 2 cents per octave. The article also discusses stretched tunings of pianos, which are also often about 2 cents per octave. -Bill Sethares Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:02 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA15070; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:05:29 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA15066 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA09706; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 11:05:09 -0800 Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 11:05:09 -0800 Message-Id: <199701071859.NAA06096@mail1.panix.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu