Non-Idealities and Inharmonicity
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Throughout this document we have typically assumed that piano strings behaved as ideal strings. In reality piano strings behave more like a stiff beam.
Inharmonicity & the Stiff String Wave Equation
Optimizing for inharmonicity
The Inharmonicity tuning program
Everything I have described regarding the signal processing and analysis of a piano note can be implemented into this program.