Why It's Impossible to Tune a Piano
Pianos can't be perfectly tuned - it's a mathematical fact! Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minutephysics for supporting MinutePhysics. Equal tempered tuning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal...
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Aah, the sound of shaking animal intestines.. I mean, strings which are traditionallymade out of cat gut but regardless of what it's made out of when a stringvibrates it does so with the ends fixed to the instrument. This means that it can onlyvibrate in certain waves, sin waves. Like a jump rope with one bump or two bumps orthree or four or some combination of these bumps. The more bumps the higherthe pitch and the faster the string has to vibrate. In fact, the frequency of astrings vibration is exactly equal to the number of bumps times the stringsfundamental frequency that is, the frequency of vibrations for a single bump.And since most melodious instruments use either strings or air vibratingpipes which has the same sinusoidal behavior it won't...
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Aah, the sound of shaking animal intestines.. I mean, strings which are traditionallymade out of cat gut but regardless of what it's made out of when a stringvibrates it does so with the ends fixed to the instrument. This means that it can onlyvibrate in certain waves, sin waves. Like a jump rope with one bump or two bumps orthree or four or some combination of these bumps. The more bumps the higherthe pitch and the faster the string has to vibrate. In fact, the frequency of astrings vibration is exactly equal to the number of bumps times the stringsfundamental frequency that is, the frequency of vibrations for a single bump.And since most melodious instruments use either strings or air vibratingpipes which has the same sinusoidal behavior it won't...
