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4. Complications!
Another thing affecting a lot our pure math is the arching of the bridge: of course low first (and fourth?
So, scaling tension is required
Plucked or bowed instrument: the big string offers more friction under the bow so someone may think a smaller string would react better. This is the idea driving modern strings.
I have to add that I experienced the opposite: a more tensed string allows me more colors and gives more support under the bow.
Fingertips, or feeling: this may be deceptive.
A small and hardened string seems stiffer under our finger, so we would like to have it less tensed.
But, less tensed means smaller, so it would hurt the finger more. So maybe we would like it bigger and softer? Uhm....
5. Conclusions: Be Practical!! So far, you can probably guess my conclusion: If you aim to follow the treatises you shall not give a letteral interpretation but a practical one, and admit that equal feeling, equal tension, and scaled tension, had the same meaning: the aim is always playing on an even instrument. But if we cannot trust
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5. Conclusions: Be Practical!! So far, you can probably guess my conclusion: If you aim to follow the treatises you shall not give a letteral interpretation but a practical one, and admit that equal feeling, equal tension, and scaled tension, had the same meaning: the aim is always playing on an even instrument. But if we cannot trust
Read More2. The Experiment …as they admit also in the treatises, pure math does not work! “If the strings have the same thickness and length and one produces a low note, which is a C, when it is stretched with a weight of 1 pound, the other must be stretched with 4 pounds to make it
Read MoreThe 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
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