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Wilfred
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I would like to invite discussion on some aspects of tuning of Marimba keys.
Some of the comments I have seen state that for a xylophone the predominant overtone should be one-and-a-fifth octaves above the fundamental, eg. for a fundamental note of C, the predominant overtone should be A. However for a marimba, they say that the predominant overtone should be two octaves above the fundamental.
I find myself wondering why the predominant overtone should have this frequency, when that note (two octaves higher) will not resonate in the resonator tube which matches the fundamental note. Is it intended to suppress the overtones? If it is desirable to have an overtone which resonates in the resonator tube, then I would have thought that the desired overtone would have a frequency three times that of the fundamental, eg. for a fundamental note of C, the overtone I am thinking of would be G.
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