<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 4/17/2004 1:12:16 PM Central Standard Time, PNOTNR@a= ol.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am curious what the limit for raising pit= ch on a violin would be.  I thought I read or heard somewhere that stri= nged instruments built long ago had some kind of reinforcing to withstand th= e higher tension.  But I think I was also told that the tension on a vi= olin string is something like 15 pounds.  And I don't have any idea whe= re that puts it in regard to breaking percentage.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gordon Large, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Colby College</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Waterville, ME</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></D= IV> <DIV>I asked our violin professor, and he said any higher than 442 would ben= ot only be too hard on the instrumentm, but it would change the color o= f the sound.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Isn't that more or less what scaling is all about? Scaling is supposed = to be the best thickness of string, at the best length, at the best tension.= So if the tension on a violin is going to increase, without changing the st= ring thickness or the length of the string, it is going to change the timbre= of the instrument. Isn't that what we've been talking about all along?</DIV= > <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"= >Willem Blees, RPT<BR>Piano Technician<BR>School of Music<BR>University of A= labama</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>