If you find it difficult to produce a winding pitch as great as 2 mm, 
you could recalculate using a thinner winding wire and a closer pitch to 
achieve the same tension.

  > Peter: Do you have a reference that I can look up to perform the tension
> calculations myself? 

The best source is John Barnes's communication No 329 in FoMRHIQ No. 23, 
available online at http://www.fomrhi.org/

> I like your comment about soldering the twisted wire together.

Careful. Soldering involves heat, which will alter the temper of the 
wire, potentially making it softer and more liable to break.

In haste, Peter

-- 
Peter Bavington
Clavichord Maker
291 Sprowston Mews
LONDON
E7 9AE
www.peter-bavington.co.uk

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