Re: The limits of human hearing

LJS wrote:
I can see that we are not quite on the same wavelength.

Me on the GHz band and you on shortwave? :-)

I get the
feeling that you are repeating what I am saying but disagreeing with
it. I don't want to get into this kind of unproductive discussion but
I really don't understand if you are saying what it sounds like you
are saying to me. I hear you to be saying that the rise in pitch is a
result of there being better strings due to the industrial
revolution. This is what I said is not true, but that the industrial
revolution would have created the better strings as a need was created
by the tendency to raise the pitch and NOT the other way around.

As mentioned before, in mid-19th century, one had reached the pitch A = 435 Hz, which is not far from the modern A = 440 Hz. So the indtusrtial revolution made pitch raising slow down, it seems.

The
fact is that less massive strings are "looser" or they have more
stretch and thus will actually produce a lower pitch and the heavier
string will produce the higher pitch.

Have you ever looked onto a guitar or into a piano. Those heavy spun strings, are they in the bass or treble?

Hans

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