David Love wrote: > Right but with increased tension also comes an increase in the Z factor > which also contributes to the tonal change which is, perhaps, a reason that > simply matching tension doesn't really work in that area. You just get a > loud honk. I'm just wondering, do you actually hear BP% differences (I'm > not convinced that you do) or, in this case, is the change in tensile > strength manifested in some other factor that would balance out the tension > difference? Maybe you don't hear break% directly in the same way you don't hear inharmonicity directly. Both are calculated from a relationship among tension, wire diameter, string length, and tensile strength. While you may not hear the break% or inharmonicity numbers directly, you hear the result of the proportion mix of the values that produce the numbers. Ron N
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