Re: [CAUT] temperature and pitchCertainly many anecdotes are true, but hard data are needed to verify general principles. The stories we've been reading would be useful guides to designing experiments in a controlled environment where temperature, humidity, pitch, and other variables could be accurately measured. Of course every piano is a special case, but we shouldn't have to guess about such basic issues. Laurence ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Sutton To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 12:31 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] temperature and pitch It's not an easy up or down, same for all pianos answer. Therefore, we have many anecdotes passed on as truth. es ----- Original Message ----- From: Laurence Libin To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] temperature and pitch The plural of 'ancedote' isn't 'data.' Haven't there been any controlled experiments to answer this question definitively? Seems like a useful undergraduate project in materials science and engineering. Laurence -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091212/ad6f6a5d/attachment.htm>
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