The harpsichord was the standard keyboard instrument for three
centuries before the invention of the piano. It enjoyed a revival
in the second half of the twentieth century, but because of the
interruption in its history as a more regularly used instrument,
many details about its construction are lacking. In The Harpsichord
Stringing Handbook, Thomas Donahue integrates available historical
evidence and modern physical principles-from both musicological and
scientific literature-to provide practical quantitative information
about the stringing of this instrument. The Harpsichord Stringing
Handbook covers the composition and properties of iron and brass
wire, the interrelationship of frequency to string length, safety
factors involved with stringing, the scaling of string lengths, the
calculation of diameters, and the determination of the transition
from iron to brass in mixed-strung instruments. Supplemental topics
include the elasticity and plasticity of wire, inharmonicity,
tension and stress, and the interpolation of string lengths.
Additional material includes data on selected historical
harpsichords, absolute diameters of historical gauge numbering
systems, a generated list of tensile strength values for historical
wire, and sizes and tensile strengths of currently available wire.
This book offers specific guidance for instrument makers,
restorers, curators, technicians, musicians, kit builders, wire
manufacturers, and acousticians, filling in critical details that
historical treatises and surviving instruments may not clearly
address.
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