Wound Bass
November 18th, 2008 | 
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How long would an unwound string be?
The bass strings in all pianos are wound with copper. Small uprights have really thick strings and sound terrible. Wouldn't a concert grand sound better if the strings were unwound? How long would the lowest string be approximately? The herz on the lowest string is 27.5.
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There is a tradeoff between the length of string, the tension, and the mass per unit length. The winding adds mass mass per unit length. Solid wire of the same diameter would be far less flexible, and longer or slacker wire would have other disadvantages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_acoustics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strings_(music)
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