----- Original Message ----- From: Stuart Walsh <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010 7:08 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc--- tensions and kgs? To: Martyn Hodgson <[email protected]> Cc: Lute List <[email protected]>, EUGENE BRAIG IV <[email protected]>
> > No it's really interesting. I've always glazed over discussions > of > tensions and kgs. So how do you work out the string tension in > kgs? Is > it a rather baffling formula? > > For example, the second course of my little homemade instrument, > with a > string length of 37cms (or just a bit more) and with a Pyramid > lute > string , nylon 0.525 tuned to b' (A=440). Is that high > tension or low > tension? As a doubled course it feels very high tension indeed > (iron > bar). As a single course it feels just a little bit too light, > but > superficially at least, more amenable for fingerstyle play. > > > Stuart Here is a really handy and easily used utility concocted by the list's own Arto. Plug your variables in here: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Calcs/wwwscalc.html The result is very near to 3 kg, which is right around where I like to keep my own mandolino, however, with courses of paired strings at approx. 330 mm on mine. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
