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Originally Posted by Rudy4
Mandobart, Would you not like to include vibrating string length (i.e. scale length) in what's needed to calculate string tension?
I can't figure out how to do it without using length, guage, and pitch. Maybe there's something I'm not understanding about how you find tension without factoring in the vibrating length of the string?
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Yes the scale length is an input - if you look at the link to Graham Macdonald's page that is one of the inputs. But its not a variable - when restringing a given instrument you can vary the gage and pitch of each string but not the length. I neglected to mention it since HHP's post and my example both compared changing to different gage strings on the same instrument.