--- On Wed, 7/13/11, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > Out of curiosity, I did what you should have done. Not > having a speaking length, I very approximately constructed > one. Going with a winding length of 30 3/4", and bare ends > of 1/2" each, I got 31 3/4", or about 806mm. Longer bare > ends would make a longer speaking length, which would have > been even worse than what I got. So the G#-2, with 0.040" > core and 0.118" overall wrap comes to pitch at around 304 > lbs, which is very near JD's result by similar method. > Sanderson's break% formula puts it at 78%, which is > guaranteed to break... > > Ron N I did the same thing Ron did, also out of curiosity, and got the same result. Those strings didn't stand a chance. Bert
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