That may be true, but a more obvious cause would be that the total length of vibrating string is reduced by the width of the area of contact of the finger.
Cheers Philip Brown On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > They would be for a perfectly thin flexible string - but string stiffness > sharpens the higher harmonics. > Bill > Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media > > -----Original Message----- > From: David van Ooijen <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:55:50 > To: Lutelist List<[email protected]> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Tuning > > On 25 June 2012 09:39, andy butler <[email protected]> wrote: >> Harmonics on a plucked string are a little bit sharp, > > Isn't it the case that harmonics are pure by definition? > > David > > -- > ******************************* > David van Ooijen > [email protected] > www.davidvanooijen.nl > ******************************* > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > >
