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Cam

Anauseam

Published

2026-03-31

Non-Idealities and Inharmonicity

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.