Equal feeling, equal tension – part 6
…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)
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With only 4 “gauges” of pure gut and two gauges of silver wire they could cover all the strings from violin to cello!
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Equal feeling, equal tension – part 3
3. 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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from Fomrhi Quarterly Bulletin I collected in two pdf files most of the articles appeared in the Fomrhi Quarterly Bulletin related to strings from 1990 up to 2018. I thought that you might appreciate them. If you do, please consider subscribing to them at the link below. It’s worth every pound (and it is really just
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