The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c13.s1.11

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The note from the first fret was marked C, but taking the pitch of the string as it was (for we did not venture to screw it up), it made 241·2 vib., which is not far from 244·23, the French pitch of B in the 4-ft. octave, [Figure:] but I adopt the names of the notes as marked on the instrument. In this case the whole string gave F in the 4-ft. octave, a fifth below the first C and an octave below No. 10 fret, marked F, at any rate precisely enough. But the whole length of the string was 906 mm., and to the first fret 298 mm., so that the sounding length of C, or 608 mm., was only a little more than ⅔ of 906 = 604 mm., the increased tension being here slight. The sounding length for F was 463 mm., considerably more than 453 = ½ of 906 mm., because the string was 7 mm. above the F fret, which caused an increase of tension that had to be allowed for. It is impossible to calculate the effect of these increments of tension which, however, served to alter the effect of the lengths considerably.