Experiment: string termination / duplex

[CalinTantareanu]

Cy and Bill B.,

I'm not very good at tuning (I'm not a piano tuner), so I don't know if I
can do this accurately.
Why don't you try this? It took me only about 15 minutes to make that
monochord - shouldn't take you much longer.

Calin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cy Shuster" <741662027@charter.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: Experiment: string termination / duplex


> Calin,
>
> This is a great experiment!  May I suggest another test case?  I would be
> interested to know the results of modifying Situation 1 so that both
> duplexes are not perfectly in tune with the speaking length, but yet still
> within a millimeter or two of the same length.  Is there any difference in
> sustain in these two cases?
>
> --Cy Shuster--
> Rochester, MN