Fade Posted May 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2020 Just now, Fade said: That is one of the advantages. Do you know how much could it be the tension at that time? I 'm not relating the different tension on treeble with the use of nails. I didn't know they had an equal tension! Thank you for the info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Burgess Posted May 12, 2020 Report Share Posted May 12, 2020 48 minutes ago, Mark Caudle said: There is quite a lot of information from Mersenne in 1636 onwards. What sort of information? Did they tension them using weights and compare the pitches? Did they infer a tension from the diameter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guglielmus Carinius Posted May 12, 2020 Report Share Posted May 12, 2020 2 hours ago, David Burgess said: What sort of information? Did they tension them using weights and compare the pitches? Did they infer a tension from the diameter? Yes to the first: Mersenne did experiments using weights (and from these experiments derived his laws relating frequency to mass per unit length, tensile force, and string length). Leopold Mozart , in his Violinschule, described verifying that adjacent strings would sound at a fifth when tensioned using equal weights. He was dismissive about players and makers who would trust their eyes to determine string gauges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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