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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