[sdiy] Harmonic bandwidth

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On Sonntag 06 Januar 2008, Paul Perry wrote:
> It would be interesting to know why pianos are strung increasingly
> high. As opposed to increasingly flat.

Because the strings have positive stiffness and not negative.  This 
makes the string effectively shorter for the higher harmonics and 
necessitates stretching of the higher octaves to accomodate the 
increasing inharmonicity in the partials coming from the lower end.


Achim.
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