The Bowed String: Observations on the Design, Manufacture, Testing and Performance of Strings for Violins, Violas and Cellos |
Contents
REQUIREMENTS FOR A PERFECT STRING | 1 |
STRING CONSTRUCTION | 8 |
DESIGN OF ACTUAL STRINGS | 14 |
Copyright | |
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17 19 PARTIALS 19 Heavy 19 Light 50 grams 50 PARTIALS aluminum AMPLITUDE BOWED WAVEFORM bending stiffness bow pressure bow speed BOW WEIGHT bowed instruments bowed string bowhair bowing distance bowing point cello centimeters per second chapter cm/sec core material damping elasticity final wrap flat wire fundamental fundamental frequency G strings GMS HEAVY GMS LIGHT GOLD LABEL grams pressure graphs gut string bowed Heavy Perlon string higher partials inharmonicity manufacturing mass measured MILLISECONDS Musical Acoustics musical strings musicians nylon oscillation PARTIALS AT 100 Perlon string bowed pitch players playing tension plectrum produce range RELATIVE AMPLITUDE BOWED Rnd or flat rosin round wire sawtooth wave shown steel core steel string bowed steel wire steel-core strings strands string design string makers synthetic cores tensile strength tone quality torsional tungsten useable VELOCITY 15 CM/S vibration viola violin A string VIOLIN A VELOCITY wave winding wrap wire