Originally Posted by elcruxio

I'll give you props for trying. We'll make a musician out of you yet! Next look up guitar harmonics. I'll give you a hint. The crossed spoke doesn't work out exactly as fretting a note. But even if it did, the crossing location is random at best in terms of accurate pitch which further makes tensioning via pitch less accurate. The whole spoke does contribute to the pitch it makes when plucked.



Same length spokes are also "very close to the same length" but when we're talking pitch with these scale lengths and tensions, "very concentric" just isn't accurate enough for fine tuning tension. I would rather get the tensions actually close with a tensionmeter rather than guesswork close by ear.



What?



The placement has some effect sure, but if you maintain the same placement every time, you'll get repeatable results.

Tone does require music training. If you're tone deaf you need more music training. Relative pitch needs to be learned just as much as perfect pitch does.



Large tension variations? Fine adjustment? Do these two actually go together. I also know tone is a tried and true method. I use it. But it's a ballpark method whereas fine tuning is done with a tensionmeter.

But you did good trying to build a strawman to distract from the weakness of your other arguments. I do admire your inventiveness though. Once one of your arguments is shot down, you bounce back with a new (albeit often false) concept or term. It's quite impressive really.