Hi Cy, Due to limitations in the analogue to digital converters RCT's Pianolyser is "deaf" below 55 hertz. I do not know if the same limitation is there for TuneLab. At 09:05 AM 3/29/2010 -0600, you wrote: > You can download a trial version of TuneLab and try it >(www.tunelab-world.com Any cheap microphone will work. >--Cy-- > Cy Shuster, RPTAlbuquerque, NMwww.shusterpiano.com >On Mar 29, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Donald McKechnie wrote:Thanks Fred, I'll look >for this book. > fundamental? At least on a concert grand? Years ago Chris Robinson >brought a spectrum analyzer to conventions for one of his classes but I do >not remember if he used it to look at the lowest notes. Quite pricey as I >recall. >Don > <fssturm at unm.edu> > March 26, 2010 3:13:23 PM EDT > caut at ptg.org > Re: [CAUT] The fundamental - Where is it? > caut at ptg.org > > >Fletcher and Rossing "The Physics of Musical Instruments" 1991 >Springer-Verlag seems to show that the board will produce fundamentals, at >least at first glance. Some charts in the chapter on the piano show the >frequencies of as low as A0 having amplitude, including a test using a >driver (as opposed to the string). That is on a quick look, and I have to >dash just now. >Regards,Fred Sturm > Donald McKechniePiano TechnicianIthaca Collegedmckech at ithaca.edu607.274.3908 > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 9.0.791 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2777 - Release Date: 03/29/10 >00:32:00 Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat mailto:pianotuna at yahoo.com http://www.donrose.ca/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 306-539-0716
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