<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>In a message dated 4/17/2004 1:23:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, Richard.= Brekne@grieg.uib.no writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>but if you were used to playing <BR>in 2 #'s a= nd had to go to 3 #'s to get the same thing then what would <BR>the real poi= nt be ??.... just to change fingering ?  And course it get <BR>more int= eresting for some other key signatures.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>I wouldn't mind going from B Major (5#'s) up to C Major, or E major to = F Major.  Maybe I could actually play some of the literature!  ...= ..nah, probably still couldn't.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I am curious what the limit for raising pitch on a violin would be.&nbs= p; I thought I read or heard somewhere that stringed instruments built long = ago had some kind of reinforcing to withstand the higher tension.  But = I think I was also told that the tension on a violin string is something lik= e 15 pounds.  And I don't have any idea where that puts it in regard to= breaking percentage.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Gordon Large, RPT</DIV> <DIV>Colby College</DIV> <DIV>Waterville, ME</DIV></BODY></HTML>