Hi John Thanks muchly for taking the time to put together the webpage on your site. One of the questions I have, and have had for quite a while pertains to bass strings. You mention taking into account the unwound end lengths of wound strings. The article in the Calculating Technician mentions this and the length of single winding end lengths on double wound strings as well... along with two formulas to deal with it. And there is the matter of hex core vs round. Yet... on the few spreadsheets I've seen so far... it seems like bass inharmonicity is dealt with far more simply. Overs posted a spreadsheet a couple months back that calculates B for the wrap by dividing the diameter of the cover squared by the diameter of the core squared and mulitiplying by 0.89 (for copper). This is then used directly to calculate inharmonicity (and Z for that matter) My question is, whether or not spreadsheets and string calculation programs generally take into account these end lengths for basic scaling work ? How important is it to gain the extra accuracy in taking into account these endlenghts, hex/round... etc factors ? Cheers RicB
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