>List, > >There have been several mentions of a "loudness factor" - can anyone give us >the formula? I've got tension, inharmonicity, and percent breaking >strength, but haven't been able to find loudness. > >thanks > >Mike Spalding, RPT Harold Conklin published a formula for what he calls characteristic in the Journal in his "Thoughts on Thoughts" article. It's good enough as a relative loudness factor. One expression for Zg is: Zg = (number of strings per note) * (tension * mass per unit length)^0.5. So we can increase Zg by increasing the tension, core size, wrap size, number of strings per note, any or all. Ron N
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