stretching of strings

A couple of days ago, someone asked
how close to harmonic real strings are.
One early article that addressed this is

R. Young, ``Inharmonicity of plain piano wire,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 24, 267-273 (1952).

Young shows that the partials of piano wire are
``stretched" by a factor of about 1.0013, which is
about 2 cents per octave. The article also discusses
stretched tunings of pianos, which are also often
about 2 cents per octave.

-Bill Sethares


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