Dr. Sanderson told me it's because higher frequencies propagate through wire faster, and thus resolve as sharper than the fundamental (which I don't completely understand). It's *not* because of dead space occupied by the nodes between individual waves, he said. On Feb 5, 2009, at 9:33 AM, reggaepass at aol.com wrote: > List, > > I just received a query from a science faculty member at the art > institute where I work. He asks how can it be that partials of > piano wire are sharp of what they "should" be? I told him that my > very pedestrian understanding is that this phenomenon is due to the > high tension of piano wire up to pitch, but that is just me > repeating what I have heard "somewhere." Is this response even > close to being correct? Any further clarification as to why this is > would be much appreciated all the way around. > > Thanks, > > Alan Eder > CalArts Cy Shuster, RPT Registered Piano Technician www.shusterpiano.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090205/30828e02/attachment.html>
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