How is the piano tuned, and are the notes struck with typical human errors in
timing?

--- In harmonic_entropy@yahoogroups.com, "traktus5" <kj4321@h...> wrote:
>
> Hello Paul, and anyone else who is around -- I was
> wondering...concerning that familiar chart of harmonic number vs.
> amplitude, with each sucessive harmonic much diminished in volume than
> the previous...does this phenomenon contribute, at all, to the actual
> manner in which a single chord actually vibrates? I mean, assuming,
> on the piano, for instance, the chord c-e-b, with each note struck
> with equal force, would the interval e-b, being a fifth, and
> containing higher amplitude harmonics, be in some way 'louder' that
> the third? I imagine it wouldn't be literally, mearably louder, but
> perhaps, with the coinciding partials and all that we've discussed
> before, is there any amplitude effect at all in that phenomenon?
>
> Regards, Kelly