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  • April 26, 2007 at 8:05 pm #87772
    bernhard-schmidt
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    Tacye,

    first, sorry for the delay of my reply.
    Yes that is right. The plucking of the string has not a so much significant effect to the pitch.It’s truth that a inharmonicity (dont know the correct english term)of the string because of the stiffness

    June 11, 2007 at 11:00 pm #87773
    Saul Davis Zlatkovski
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    I had an interesting experience performing in a large church recently. The harp notes sustained beautifully, and rang and rang without echo, and I found that the highest notes sustained so much longer that tuned accurately to a tuner that the notes actually flattened as they decayed, so I indeed had to stretch the pitch higher by as much as ten cents in order for it to sound in tune as it sustained.

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