[CAUT] Re. Link to Young paper

James Ellis claviers at nxs.net
Thu Jan 18 18:00:40 MST 2007


Fred Sturm makes some interesting observations.  He is correct.  These
anomalies are not confined to bass strings, but the reasons are different.
Most piano wire made during the past 60 years is sufficiently uniform so
that the anomaly does not come from the wire itself, but from whatever it
is attached to.  Terminations are bound to affect it, and the shorter the
string, the more effect the termination will have, especially in the duplex
sections.  Anomalies can also occur in the longer plain-wire strings when
some resonance of the piano's bridge and soundboard reflect back into the
string.

Sincerely, Jim Ellis 



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