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I couldn't agree with this more! Your touching on my idea with the
tighter wrapped flatwounds vs. the lighter wrapped. All strings are
not the same!
--- In , "Roland Bettenville"
<roland.bettenville@p...> wrote:
> Just to add a little bit of science to this discussion.
> The general idea to most people is that the string gauge determines
the
> tension.
> This is not 100% correct.
> What determines the tension is the mass (weight) of a string.
> The heavier a string the more tension.
> In general you can say that bigger strings are heavier.
> But you can have two strings of the same gauge, and if one
constructor uses
> lighter materials or a wrap that is less tight then you can have
different
> tension.
>
> Roland Bettenville
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> roland.bettenville@p...
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> -------Original Message-------
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> From:
> Date: Sunday, April 04, 2004 09:07:07
> To:
> Subject: RE: [SurfGuitar101] Re: In the bowels of the ($399) beast
(STRINGS)
>
> Hi,
>
> This is a very interesting discussion regarding the strings.
> The Pyramids are a somewhat difference set then the d'Addario's.
> Pyramid 0.11 goes to 0.48, while the d'Addario goes from 0.11 to
0.50.
> So the whole d'Addario set has more tension, giving it's thicker
lower
> strings.
> I also think that since the d'Addario are "Chrome steel" the
tension of
> this matirial is somewhat higher then plain Nickel as used on both
> Thomastik and Pyramid. I also tried "Gibson flats (nickel as well)
which
> also sounded very good, and had a lower "overall" tension then the
> d'Addario's.
>
> I also made a small comparison between 0.15/0.16 G-strings between
round
> wound sets, D'addario's plain G has more tension then any other set
I
> tried. (I'm talking here on their plain XL-0.10 roundwoud set) I
always
> have a problem getting the right intonation with this d'Addario
set, so
> I tried diferent brands, same set, same string thickness. These dont
> have the higher tension on that particular set.
>
> These are just my observations, not a science test.
>
> -Jerry S.
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