[CAUT] The fundamental - Where is it?

[Donald McKechnie]

David,

I'll give that a try but I'm also going to get a recording one way or  
the other. Our recording tech said for the money, the device I showed  
Fred is not bad. Also according to our recording tech, the company  
will give us an educational discount. I have to wait until after  
Passover to call and find out what the discount will be.

Our recording folks are also about to purchase a "multi-seat software  
analyzer." With the right mic we should be able to pick up the  
fundamental.

This quest has turned out to be fun and interesting. It will also be  
useful when I teach my PT class in the Fall.

Regards,
Don

> From: "Porritt, David" <dporritt at mail.smu.edu>
> Date: March 29, 2010 3:30:15 PM EDT
> To: "caut at ptg.org" <caut at ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] The fundamental - Where is it?
> Reply-To: caut at ptg.org
>
>
> Don:
>
> Jim Ellis mentioned a way to get A0 to vibrate at the fundamental.   
> He said to press down on the string pretty hard then let go of it as  
> quickly as possible but not in a way that would pluck it.  It will  
> oscillate at the fundamental frequency and if you didn’t allow it to  
> be “plucked” it would pretty much be the fundamental.  You won’t  
> hear much but you can see it vibrating.
>
> dp
>
>
> David M. Porritt, RPT
> dporritt at smu.edu

Donald McKechnie
Piano Technician
Ithaca College
dmckech at ithaca.edu
607.274.3908






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