I want you....you know I do. G. Lee -----Original Message----- From: Ron Nossaman <nossaman@SOUTHWIND.NET> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> Date: Sunday, January 17, 1999 3:03 PM Subject: Brown's lengths >I read with some interest, the comments in this month's PTJ about Richard >Brown's series of articles "Some Thoughts on the Design of Bass Strings". I >was disappointed that the speaking lengths weren't given to round out the >picture a little. Not having the real info, and being me, I decided to see >how the back door approach worked. I plugged the diameters of the cores and >wraps into a scaling program and juggled the lengths until the tensions and >breaking percentages came into line with the published chart. Extremely >spooky scale! Not recommended. This still doesn't tell us what the rest of >the scale looked like, and I seriously doubt that it was a straight log >progression, so it's not really good for much. Still, I think it's a good >enough reconstruction to illustrate the problems inherent in this kind of >approach to bass scaling. > >Try these lengths, in millimeters, and see what you get. > >1 1238 >2 1225 >3 1212 >4 1200 >5 1188 >6 1177 >7 1160 >8 1149 >9 1135 >10 1122 >11 1108 >12 1096 >13 1083 >14 1073 >15 1060 >16 1049 >17 1035 >18 1022 >19 1010 >20 999 >21 984 >22 972 >23 959 >24 948 >25 933 >26 920 >27 1065 >28 1050 >29 1032 >30 1016 > >For what it's worth, > Ron >
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