Fred, this seems a useful piece of information. And I can easily believe that this change is greater in harpsichords than in pianos. Susan >My >experience in this is with harpsichords. On harpsichords, I suspect >that the break% variance is probably larger in proportion, judging >from my experience. Partly because we are dealing with proportionally >larger differences of string mass (.014 versus .015 is a bigger >difference than .040 to .041), and often with scales that are a lot >more "ambitious" (pushing the break% envelope). Maybe someone on the >list has a set up for harpsichord tension, break%, etc and can run >some figures or provide a spreadsheet.
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