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I'm with you B, no one really cares much and it's no
big deal....there are many varibles to the equation of
whether or not you dig the guitar you are fooling
around with.... I still think I'll work up a crude
string tension dyno with a spring scale and have some
fun.....details to follow......eddie the impossible
--- Brian Neal <> wrote:
> f = (1 / 2L) * SQRT(T / u)
>
> I don't think more than 2 people care, but in an
> offline conversation
> Marty pointed out a mistake I made. If we do assume
> that the added
> string length behind the bridge on a Jazzmaster does
> contribute
> *something* to a longer effective string length,
> then you would need
> to increase the tension to keep the frequency the
> same. In other words
> if you increase the denominator you have to increase
> the numerator to
> keep things equal. That's pretty intuitive I think.
> If you have a
> longer wire then you have to pull it taught more to
> get it to some
> frequency compared to a shorter wire.
>
> So my feeble theory would be that a Jazzmaster would
> have "tighter"
> feeling strings than a Strat when strung with the
> exact same gauge and
> brand of strings.
>
> Does anyone have anecdotal evidence? How do strats
> and JM's feel to
> you when strung with the same strings?
>
> Okay I am done being an armchair physicist.
>
> BN
>
>
>
>
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Brian is being kind as he also pointed out mistakes in my thinking in our
off-line chat about string tension. I won't go more into details that don't
really belong here.
-Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: John McCorvey
To:
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [SurfGuitar101] String Tension,Tension on 101....
I'm with you B, no one really cares much and it's no
big deal....there are many varibles to the equation of
whether or not you dig the guitar you are fooling
around with.... I still think I'll work up a crude
string tension dyno with a spring scale and have some
fun.....details to follow......eddie the impossible
--- Brian Neal <> wrote:
> f = (1 / 2L) * SQRT(T / u)
>
> I don't think more than 2 people care, but in an
> offline conversation
> Marty pointed out a mistake I made. If we do assume
> that the added
> string length behind the bridge on a Jazzmaster does
> contribute
> *something* to a longer effective string length,
> then you would need
> to increase the tension to keep the frequency the
> same. In other words
> if you increase the denominator you have to increase
> the numerator to
> keep things equal. That's pretty intuitive I think.
> If you have a
> longer wire then you have to pull it taught more to
> get it to some
> frequency compared to a shorter wire.
>
> So my feeble theory would be that a Jazzmaster would
> have "tighter"
> feeling strings than a Strat when strung with the
> exact same gauge and
> brand of strings.
>
> Does anyone have anecdotal evidence? How do strats
> and JM's feel to
> you when strung with the same strings?
>
> Okay I am done being an armchair physicist.
>
> BN
>
>
>
>
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