Pitch at breaking points

A440A@AOL.COM A440A@AOL.COM
Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:14:26 EDT


 >Newton writes
> > Given one note location and speaking length every wire size will
>> break at the same pitch when drawn up that high.

Greetings, 
    Don Galt, many years ago, posited that a piano string will break when it 
is raised up a minor third.  I have found this to be true of all plain wire 
strings I have tried it on.  
Regards, 
Ed Foote RPT


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