Re: ATM "Tuning" a wire spider?

["Bill Prewitt" <bprewitt@neo.rr.com>]

Length, diameter and density gives tension
Here's a good javascript calculator 
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Calcs/wwwscalc.html

Webpage of Telescope Making and Caving
(My hobbies keep me in the dark)
www.astrocaver.com


> 
> Anyone have some references as to how to determine the tension on a wire
> spider by measuring its note as it's plucked? I was hoping it might be a
> simple function of length and tension...
>