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I been watching this thread a while… I would be happy if my English could be better to write what I feel nessecarry
Patricia,
thank you for the reference.
Yes, with a midi harp it is possible to write direct into a natation software via MIDI.
This works for full chords….its like playing a keybord…but with the midi harp you stay with your instrument. ThereTacye,
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 stiffnessI just read the post of Janic again…and it is also very important what he is writing.
Thank you for pointing that one.++If it occurs at only specific locations, it might be more of an ambient sonic issue, which is still a real pain.++
Because every hollow body even kitchen, musicroom, harpbodys even landscape have all there own wolf and special resonance places.
If you
The only cure a harpist could do by herself / himself is to change the particular string where the wolf occurs. But the mass of the string must be changed by increasing or even degrade the diameter of the string slightly.
Just to change the brand of the string will not help because the diameter can beLet���s go back to the 4 meter example of harp. The several overtones which are produced by plucking a string have an almost exact frequency distance from the fundamental tone. By increasing the diameter of the string the position of the overtones becomes more away from the fundamental tone. By increasing the string diameter again (next octave) the stiffness of the strings is getting more and more and the overtones getting more away from the fundamental tone. At the end you tune with a tuner and you will have exact fundamentals but the overtones are out of tune. The first 5 overtones can be as loud as the fundamental. So you can imagine, the first, the fundamentals are in tune to each other and the other produced overtones are not.
No pianist would say that his instrument is in tune and no one would do a concert
Tacye,
Sorry I have to be the devils advocate here I guess.
But the way of tuning you describe is not a correct stretch-tuning.
It is a common misinterpretation of stretch-tuning to playing the harmonics.
This does not automatically stretch the tuning.The reason why it is not working this way is because you need the real plucking of the string.
The string needs the force which brings the string out of alignment to produce amplitude / a vibration. This way, the harmonics of a swinging string are produced correctly.
The way you did describe the tuning it is the pure mathematically 1:2 way which produces an octave?.nothing more and nothing less.The reason of making a stretch-tuning is only because the stiffness of the strings becomes higher at the bass and getting higher at the treble?while the result is opposite from bass to treble.
Kathlee,
Sorry, I was not talking about the tempered tuning.
I was talking about tuning the harp in tune with itself.
Because the stiffness of the thicker strings at the lower range results in a non-linear warping of the harmonic serie that run contra to the ideal tuning of each octave.
Regards
