Klarinet Archive - Posting 000821.txt from 2000/07

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Carbonare's Selmer
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 20:57:37 -0400

From: "William Wright" <Bilwright@-----.net>
> If the fundamental note is in tune, the higher harmonics cannot be.
> (Same as a piano, which must compromise on a tempered scale.)

That is not true of the clarinet. The harmonics are in tune. Added mass
(wound strings) on a piano cause inharmonicity.

Mark C.

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