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Re: Amplitude and pitch of sound waves

At 10:09 AM -0500 11/29/99, Michael Edmiston wrote:


It would take a long time to do this for every note. But once you do
this for a few notes all the way up (and down) to see how much stretch
this particular piano "wants," you can note the calibration settings
for those experimentally determined notes, then extrapolate the
calibration for the notes in between. If you take a good piano and
tune it this way, it sounds beautiful.


Have you ever experienced a 'well-tempered' piano. It is said to
sound LOUSY, UNLESS it is playing in it's correct key.

I seem to recall a Mozart (?) piece that was intended to be played on
such a beast.

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