On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > The greater the elongation under the tension necessary to produce the > required pitch, the higher the break%... I read Fenner to say that longer non-speaking string segments also increase elongation and stability as you implied: the long front scale should mean that the overall string is longer, so > the effect of a given string length change (seasonal, from wood reaction to > humidity) has a relatively smaller affect on overall string tension, and the > unisons should stay in tune better. with no increase in breaking %age (speaking length and tension unchanged). So elongation and breaking %age are not always linked. Do I state this correctly? Albert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090730/3e5d20a2/attachment.htm>
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