Why You Can By no means Tune a Piano

Seize a cup of cof­price, put in your suppose­ing cap, and begin work­ing by means of this video from Minute Physics, which explains why gui­tars, vio­lins and oth­er instru­ments may be tuned to a tee. However in terms of pianos, it’s a whole­ly dif­fer­ent sto­ry, a math­e­mat­i­cal impos­si­bil­i­ty. Pianos are slight­ly however nec­es­sar­i­ly out of tune.

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