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Old 08-26-2019, 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Brent Hahn View Post
Just an uneducated guess. But it looks to me like, with a wound string, all the tension is on the core wire, not the outside wound wire. So a fatter core wire with nothing wound around it would have to have a lot more tension, no?
No. Tension is related to mass per unit length, string length and frequency. However the string would be stiff (increased resistance to bending) and sound bad and intonate poorly.
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