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In an effort to find the relative importance of humidity on the speed of air
sound, I found it a method of determining the moisture in wood -- important in
curing for sale.
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf1998/simps98c.pdf
bc who thinks over drying of would may make it brittle in addition to being
wasteful.
Rick Tarara wrote:
> You only have to do a calculation to see that the tuning effect lies almost
> entirely with the temperature dependence of the speed of sound in air. The
> expansion/contraction of the instruments contributes minimally.
>
> Rick
>
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> Richard W. Tarara
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