---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 4/17/2004 1:12:16 PM Central Standard Time, PNOTNR@aol.com writes: I am curious what the limit for raising pitch on a violin would be. I thought I read or heard somewhere that stringed instruments built long ago had some kind of reinforcing to withstand the higher tension. But I think I was also told that the tension on a violin string is something like 15 pounds. And I don't have any idea where that puts it in regard to breaking percentage. Gordon Large, RPT Colby College Waterville, ME I asked our violin professor, and he said any higher than 442 would benot only be too hard on the instrumentm, but it would change the color of the sound. Isn't that more or less what scaling is all about? Scaling is supposed to be the best thickness of string, at the best length, at the best tension. So if the tension on a violin is going to increase, without changing the string thickness or the length of the string, it is going to change the timbre of the instrument. Isn't that what we've been talking about all along? Wim Willem Blees, RPT Piano Technician School of Music University of Alabama ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/92/47/e1/a1/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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