Badiarov - Equal Tension

Baroque Violin Blog of Dmitry Badiarov: BAROQUE: Equal Tension stringing results in Unequal Feel: things you want to avoid or at least know about (another calcu...

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19 JUNE 2011

BAROQUE: Equal Tension stringing results in

Unequal Feel: things you want to avoid or at

least know about (another calculator)

This is the same violin as in the calculation published

earlier but this time the violin is strung with Equal

Tension strings. See that while the longitudinal

tension is equal it results in extremely unequal and

unbalanced string pressure and consequently

"unequal feel". If the downward pressure of strings

is not equal they will not feel equally tense for the

bow or the

fingers.

Mersenne, Mozart, De Colco have probably

forgotten to add that Equal Tension - the idea taken

from the lute and proportional relationships - can

not be applied to instruments with round bridges

and this you can see in these two calculators (Feel

free to click "Click to Edit" if you want to try other

pitches or string gauges - your changes won' t be

saved) . N.B. The e"-string chosen for this calculation

is the thinnest you can get with three ribbons of gut - the number of guts used in

the Baroque period to make the e"- string, that is minimum ca 0.66

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Equal Feel string calculator can be found here.

Modern strings made of plastic or metal and calculated to yield the right tension/

pressure at 440Hz and have a very low response latitude: that is, they will not

sound right at the pitch much higher or much lower than 440Hz. On the

contrary, natural gut strings have a very wide latitude and will sound right and

provide reasonable resistance to the pressure of the bow at a variety of pitches:

+1 or even +2, or -1 or even -2 semitones. This mean you can use much thicker

strings for very low pitches and much thicker strings for high pitches, but the

average is the one which had been so common: e"-70-73, a' 85-88, d' 116- 120,

g - silver wound thin a' -string (for the music from the concerto period or with

lots of double and tripple stops, metal powder loaded g -string equivalent of

ca220 for the sonata period or just plain gut equivalent 200-220. This will work

just fine in 392 or 465, and of course, will be perfect for 400- 430Hz.

The point of this calculator is to demonstrate that Equal Tension stringing does

not result in Equal Feel. These two things are incompatible on instruments with

round bridges. Of course, one can match the angles and gauges in such a

manner as to minimize the differences in longitudinal tension and downward

pressure between the strings but levelling those differences flat will inevitably

result in a more equalized acoustic performance - with rather anti -baroque

consequences, something perhaps suitable for the period of "liberté, égalité,

fraternité ou la mort" and later.

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