Dear List, After analysing the detailed explanations to my question about wolf tones (wolf intervals) in pianos, that I have gotten from List members (thanks to all of them) and from literature, I understood that I have a great research interest not to wolf intervals but to what Jim Coleman described as: >... the high partial howls which can be heard in Bass >strings when there is a near coincidence between a transverse >partial and >a longitudinal partial on the same string. My questions are: 1) Are this "howl" exactly the same that what was called "wild string" in the message from Michel Lachance?: >If we understand wolftones as being sympathical partials that are >slightly conflicting with each others, causing some beats in the >pitch, we do encounter this phenomenon in pianos on a quite >regular basis. We call it "wild string". 2)Can anybody provide me to magnetic or computer records with these "howls" and "wild string" sounds? Thanks, Alex Alexander Galembo, Ph. D. NSERC-NATO Science fellow Acoustics lab, Dept. of Psychology, Queen's University Kingston ON K7L3N6 Canada Tel. (613) 5456000, ext. 5754 Fax (613) 5452499 E-mail: galembo@pavlov.psyc.queensu.ca URL : http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8779/
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