String chart?

Subject: String chart?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 12:52 PM

I'm getting fed up with breaking strings on odd instruments with odd tunings.

I used to have a handy chart for this kind of thing - it gave the appropriate gauge strings to use for any particular note for any scale length of instrument. So if it was some weird instrument with a non-standard scale length, and I'd decided I'd like to try it with some peculiar tuning, the chart would tell me what strings to use. And more than likely I'd find some string I had handy from a string change on some other instrument would do the trick while I was experimenting. (I never throw strings away, as a rule. Well, not unless they're wound strings, with the winding coming to bits.)

But I lost the chart - or rather I've idea where I put it. So can anyone out there point me in the right direction for getting hold of what I need?

Subject: RE: String chart?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 04:47 PM

Kevin...see if this will help StringCalc

Subject: RE: String chart?
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 04:52 PM

Bill,

You are a genius. Even though this isn't a problem I have, I appreciate your expertise in knowing (seemingly) every bit of decent freeware in the world. You also understand reason and logic.

Live long and prosper!

Ed

Subject: RE: String chart?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 04:59 PM

*grin*...no genius-- I just hang out where they discuss freeware, and I love to play.

Thanks, Ed...It always nice to get an appreciative response.

Subject: RE: String chart?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 05:00 PM

Oh...by the way, the program seems to only partially work on XP. The author warns... all the changing calculations work, but the tone generator seems to crash it.

Subject: RE: String chart?
From: Pete_Standing
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 05:02 PM

I use this for my guitar and bouzouki

Subject: RE: String chart?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 05:31 PM

Both those look pretty good. Thanks, Bill and Peter.

You can get everything you want at Max's Restaurant.

I don't suppose there's an online version of something like this? In case I might be wanting to access it on some other computer, in the library for example.

Subject: RE: String chart?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 05:41 PM

Why on earth would you wish to restring an instrument in Harlow library?

Subject: RE: String chart?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 05:48 PM

I'm 'almost' sure I saw some online gadget (maybe 2 years ago), but a cursory search didn't show it.