Edward Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have never seen...
well, maybe that string wont do anything directly, maybe the weak glue
joint wont give right then, maybe the owner wont notice the coincidence...
but, any idea of how much damage a startled cat can do?
Pay the two dollars. (as the
Anything is possible, Dana! Of course, incidental things can happen.
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At 11:19 PM 8/23/2005 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Edward Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have never seen...
well, maybe that string wont do anything directly, maybe the weak glue
joint wont give right then, maybe
Leonard Williams wrote:
When the
string pops, there is a very sudden change in the tension on the
instrument.
Can this be damaging?
If you lose one of 15 strings on an eight-course lute, the tension will
suddenly be something like 14/15 of what it was before the string
broke--more if it's
Sorry. I hit send instead of delete. The point is that the change in
tension when a string breaks is around 5 to 8 %. It probably changes
more than that if you have gut strings and the humidity increases.
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Concur with Edward and Howard. And will add that on both lute and harp
(opposites in the way the tension is applied, parallel versus
semi-perpendicular) the lose of one string is a tiny fraction of total
tension. And that a release of tension (stress actually) won't hurt the
instrument - in fact
