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The breaking index rule.
The most important rule you cannot escape from (as far as you are voted to gut strings): at a given string length, a string of a given material, will always break at the same pitch, no matter how big it is.
Mindblowing or intuitive? Probably both of them.
Looking forward to your comments below
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