Hey, My friend has a new AT500, from lees badminton, and he didn't specify a string tension when ordering it. The strings on my rackets have a little bit of flexibility when you push on them, however his AT500 has VERY LITTLE, (hardly any). (BG 65 TI) I was wondering what tension range is his racket string in? He thinks it's 25 lb. I wanted to know this, because the strings are definately too tight for me, and I was just curious.
Unless ur 2 have the same string, otherwise, just by "pushing", it's hardly anywhere near accurate. Who not give the store a call, and see what's their default tension?
one way to know for sure is to listen to the frequency or pitch. as a musician, i like to check the sound or pitch of the string for fun with different notes on the piano, and C is 22 lbs. one semitone up is one pound up, one semitone down is one pound down. so for example, a frequence of D would mean its strung at 24 pounds
BTW, a C on the piano is concert C, that means it may not be the same as other instruments. i chose the piano because concert C is usually the universal key to use when there is a big mix. a trumpet for example is concert Bflat.
nope, only lower but the same sound, think about a guitar. the tension of the string is always the same, n when its not, the sound goes down. thats y we tune string instruments, to tighten them up to the proper tension. thicker strings will produce the same pitch at the same tension, but with a deeper or darker quality. think octaves.
"different string" means not only different thickness, but also different construction and different materials, different stretchiness/elasticity. do any of those make a difference to the pitch/frequency given the same length and same tension?
Well I don't play music but from physics classes I think it has to do with frequency varying with different mass per unit length of string, but pitch staying the same.
Do you have perfect pitch? For the common badminton enthusiast, it would look very odd to take all your racquets to "ping" next to a piano PS if what you say is accurate, then a concert C would only hold for a BG65/65ti/70pro (same thickness). Anyone want to have a go at constructing a range of notes for different strings??
The general rule is the higher the tension the higher the sound. However, different string does make a different sound. BG80 at 24lbs makes a much higher sound than BG65 at 26lbs. I find that BG65 makes an unusually low sound.
maybe music enthusiasts out there can start to form a badminton racket band or something... all playing using rackets strung with different strings and tensions. wow, that'll be something.
nope, the material has nothing to do with it, because as soon as it stretches, the pitch goes down,and it will have lost a couple of pounds
