[CAUT] temperature and pitch

Elwood Doss edoss at utm.edu
Tue Dec 15 22:21:20 MST 2009


Now Ron, we all want to know what you have to say.  Your wisdom is
valuable to all of us.  Elucidate, sir!
Joy!
Elwood

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-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Ron Nossaman
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:22 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] temperature and pitch

Jon Page wrote:

> Temperature affects the wire long before RH can affect the wood.
> Cold constrict the wire causing the pitch to go sharp.

Correct.


> We should be hearing from Professor Nossaman any time now...

Why? What I say has no significance. Any further detail seems 
to be largely a waste of time.
Ron N


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