A general comment on the subject of string tension: Higher tension strings allow you to pluck harder without problems, but they take a harder pluck to achieve the same amount of vibration as lower tension strings. Thus as a starting premise; If a high tension string and a low tension string are plucked equally, the low tension string will vibrate in a wider arc, be louder, and have less sustain than the high tension string. If however, both strings are lucked as hard as possible without distortion or rattling, it will be possible to pluck the high tension string harder then the low tension string. Thus, the high tension string may well be able to be louder than the low tension string. All of this will be modified by the construction of the instrument which will ideally be designed for the best sound at a predetermined tension. Furthermore, louder is only louder not necessarily better. Craig Craig R. Pierpont Another Era Lutherie www.anotherera.com
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