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<\/a>As you can see, the fundamental frequencies are almost all within +\/- 5 cents. For bars 21 (C#6) and under, we were\u00a0able to keep the second partial pretty tight too. We were not able to maintain the 2nd partial in the higher register, but this is consistent with other instruments that I spectrally measured. We expected the bars to settle out a bit more, so our plan was to tweak them one last time before applying finish to tease out the last few cents.<\/p>\n
Bar #43 (B7) was problematic. As we were tuning it, it sounded a bit dead. The spectral response looked a little funny too. Here is\u00a0the PSD for that bar:<\/p>\n Notice that the peak is not well defined. By contrast, here are the PSDs for bars 42 and 44:<\/p>\n These two have much more well defined peaks than bar 43.\u00a0We looked back at the PSDs for the blanks, and the differences were not as obvious, so we couldn’t have caught this before tuning. We considered remaking this bar but ultimately decided it was good enough. Perhaps we will replace it in the future.<\/p>\n Here is what the bars sounded like at this point:<\/p>\n\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>