[CAUT] MonoChord with whistling partial

[Ed Sutton]

 It sounds like you are describing a longitudinal mode partial. If Jim 
Arledge made the strings, contact him and tell him about it.

Ed S.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Anderson" <andrew at andersonmusic.com>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 10:40 PM
Subject: [CAUT] MonoChord with whistling partial


> My wife's Everett concert grand was recently refurbished, re-scaled with 
> some nice strings and has new Ronson wurzen hammers on it.
>
> The E1 monochord has a prominent whistling partial, pretty high and 
> obnoxious.  The hammer is beginning to play-in and if anything needs more, 
> not less, bite.  Any ideas how to tame this one?
>
> Andrew Anderson,
> TAMIU, LCC etc
>