Stretched and compressed tuning: Difference between revisions

Stretched tuning is used even outside of a xenharmonic context. Perhaps the most notable instance of this is in the case of acoustic pianos. Since a piano's [[overtone]]s tend slightly sharp from their ideal natural harmonics and do not exactly line up with the [[harmonic series]] (especially on spinet pianos with their rather short strings), stretched [[octave]]s are usually used to compensate.