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Grab a cup of coffee, put on your thinking cap, and start working through this video from Minute Physics, which explains why guitars, violins and other instruments can be tuned to a tee. But when it comes to pianos, it’s an entirely different story, a mathematical impossibility. Pianos are slightly but necessarily out of tune.
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This content originally appeared on Open Culture and was authored by OC
OC | Sciencx (2024-09-12T05:17:50+00:00) Why You Can Never Tune a Piano. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2024/09/12/why-you-can-never-tune-a-piano/
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