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Originally posted by Ted Nightshade
False beats means that a string will beat all by itself! Clever tuners, and god bless 'em, will be able to come up with tricky tuning compromises within the unison to bring the beating down as far as possible, but often, it's impossible to kill. |
False beats? I know guitars, basses, dulcimers, etc will do this, and i figured it was the interaction between the string and the body of the instrument.
Does that explain why an F#(4) tends to sound completely different from any other note, regardless of piano?