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

Just ordinary equal tempermant, and an ideal case with each note
struck equally, perhaps by machine...



> >
> > 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