Owen,
Sigh... yes, I see I put mm instead of cm for sounding string length. Many
regrets. My physician says I have 73 reasons why I make such
mistakes......Thank you for your patience.
Sandy
On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Owen Daly Harpsichords <
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> Virginal stringing issue:
>
> Sandy, I’m confused about the notes you reference. You use capital letters
> and normal sized integers, which suggests the commonly used (and to me,
> annoying) piano notation, whereby, middle c is C4, and so on, but the
> sounding lengths and diameters are clearly not appropriate for the bass
> end, which that notation would imply. So I assume you mean g#”, a” (the
> ones an octave=plus above middle c’) up to top c, which is c’’’.
>
> The stringing is weird. .23mm (≈Nurnburg #9) seems appropriate enough at
> the very top, but the jump from .23 iron at b” to .40 brass one note below
> that is bizarre, to say the least. Is there something I’m missing about
> your notation?
>
> There is absolutely nothing in reasonable scaling that would suggest
> crossing over to brass way up there, and certainly nothing even remotely
> plausible about the diameters.
>
>
> I believe that David Pickett’s comment about the diameters being far too
> small is consistent with his interpreting the notation to be the piano
> notation, which would make the notes in question be in the deep bass, where
> slackness can be a problem, but the string lengths cannot possibly be down
> there. Have you confused mm with cm?
>
> And if it’s in the bass, then the iron B2 and C3 is crazy.
>
> owen
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