Call for scaling spreadsheets

[Farrell]

I think Jason was asking about tensions as the scale progresses from plain 
wire tricords to wound bicords and then to the wound monocords. If I can 
rephrase his question: Do you shoot for equal tension in all 
plain/wound-bicord/wound-monocord notes, or equal tension on each individual 
string? I.e. if a plain tricord has 160 lbs. of tension on each string, 
there will be a total of 480 lbs. tension for that note. If you consider 
then a wound bicord note, would you design each string of the note to have 
160 lbs. for a total of 320 lbs. tension on that note, or would you shoot 
for a total of 480 lbs. tension on that wound bicord note where each of the 
two strings would have 240 lbs. of tension each?

Jason, whack my across my knuckles if I am out in left field!

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> Although there are exceptions, it is a reasonable assumption that all
> strings of a unison were designed to have the same tension.  I personally
> disagree with the arguments of the few that intentionally vary the tension
> within a unison.  For purposes of setting up a spreadsheet and graphing 
> the
> results, I treat all strings of a single bichord or trichord unison as
> being identical, with respect to the speaking length.
SNIP
> Frank Emerson
> pianoguru at earthlink.net
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Jason Kanter <jkanter at rollingball.com>
>> Frank - do you shoot for equal tension per string, or equal tension per
>> unison?