>> Drawing wire was invented in Germany in the mid 1300's, drawn steel 1632. >> Beaten wire technology of before the 14th century precludes the possibility >> of metal stings on celtic harps until Renaissance (counted from Dante, >> Giotto & Co). >> RT >> ______________ >> Roman M. Turovsky >> http://polyhymnion.org/swv >> > > It doesn't preclude it. A beaten wire could be lapped to whatever level of > consistency and accuracy was desired, given reasonable skill of the > string-maker. > It is perfectly feasible to work within dimentional limits of one or two ten > thousanths of an inch (0.0001"-0.0002", or say 0.002mm-0.004mm) by lapping > with simply made and crude seeming laps. In your estimate (permitting the possibility of quality sufficient for a musical string), what would it take in terms of man-days to produce 1 meter of 0.3 mm bronze string ? RT -- http://polyhymnion.org/torban
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