Bob's Handy String Tension Designer

With this Netscape Javascript program, you can see how pitch, tension, string length, diameter and inharmonicity are related. First select an octave, then click on note to select, and enter values in the fields above the COMPUTE button. Select type of string. Click on COMPUTE to find out how much tension is required. This program does not work for wound strings.
SELECT OCTAVE: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Select note by clicking on scale above
Frequency in cycles/second
Wire length in inches
11 < Music wire size number < 24
Select a type of wire 1840 Iron strings
Modern steel strings
Wire diameter in inches
Required tension in pounds
Percent of breaking tension
Inharmonicity

The equations used in this program are from Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics by Arthur H. Benade, Dover Books, 1976.