[CAUT] The fundamental - Where is it?

[Fred Sturm]

	I don't think I grasped what the charts I mentioned earlier were  
showing (it had more to do with driving the board than with a string  
coupled to the board), but here is a quote from the same book, p. 338:  
"Although the fundamental dominates the piano sound spectrum over most  
of its range, it is very weak in the lower two octaves. For the lowest  
note A0 (27.5 Hz), the fundamental may be 25 dB below the level of the  
strongest component." That seems pretty clear: it is present.  
Furthermore, this was a blanket statement, not confined to large grands.

Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu