PACS REFERENCE: 43.75.Mn

ABSTRACT To study the quantitative and objective relationship between the inharmonicity and the tone of a piano, this paper introduces the synthesizing method to make realistic samples of piano sounds that have different amount of inharmonicity but the other factors of the tone controlled to be same. The synthesized samples are to be used for listening tests that contain questions with many adjective pairs describing the tone of a piano. The result of this listening test lets us have more detailed and objective information about influence of inharmonicity on the tone of a piano