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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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1. The Problem Let’s get started: the factors involved and their relationship: In our equation we have so many fixed factors, that we end just with a very simple equation: (at a given pitch and string length) gauge=tension*(under squared root and multiplied for a coefficient for gut’s mass). If we change one of them, the other
Read More…and wound strings? …so once we got the idea, we can face the question: and with the wound ones? should we increase or decrease the tension? (originally a facebook live)
Read More3. Mystery unveiled: Strings Do Stretch!! …but… not in the same way, not of the same cohefficient… it depends on how are made and, first of all, from their gauge We need to consider the many factors affecting our pure math calculations: the first is, of course, the string! A string which is low twisted and maybe
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