Quote Originally Posted by Ch0jin
Not quite.


Does that help?

Also the math isn't that hard (if I have it right that is)

- An E string vibrates at 82.4Hz and its buddy the A string vibrates at 110Hz
- If you double the Length, you halve the Frequency.

So if your E and A were the same gauge and the same tension, lets see what the scale would look like.

If we start with a "standard" LP scale length E string of 628mm (thats 24.75'' for you heathens) and we calculate that 110Hz is close as custard to 25% higher in frequency than your E.

Therefore we can extrapolate that to gain 25% in F we need to reduce the L by 25% resulting in a scale length of only 471mm (18.54") for the A string.

If you carry that formula on up the strings, you can quickly see just how impossible this would be on a traditional guitar shape.

What a great explanation, thanks! I had been thinking of gauge simply as diameter thickness, totally forgetting about mass. And the maths is fun too (as is the heathen crack!) Thanks again!!

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