Beating strings and such

[Nels Lindberg]

Maybe try a strobe light, possibly with a fequency control?  I'm
thinking of how one used to set the timing on a car....  Probably a
mechanically-minded friend/neighbor has one you could borrow.

Nels
On 12/1/05, KeyKat88@aol.com <KeyKat88@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
>            This may be a lofty question but here goes:  Is there any
> manufacturer that makes equipmnet so that a person can actually see a piano
> string vibrate in order to observe nodes and antinodes? What does one need
> to view this; a microscope (perhaps that is laughable)?  Would it be some
> sort of specialized equipment that say a college/university/research
> institute would purchase from a manufacturer that specializes this type of
> physics lab equipment?
>
> I am reading Hemoltz's On the Sensation of Tone and other books; On Pitch by
> Rick Baldassin, and Measured Tones by Ian Johnston. I would like to know
> more about inharmonicity.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Key