Follow-up Question:
Building on my previous question about the mechanism of guitar string tuning, I was wondering if it's theoretically possible to determine the tension in a guitar string simply by knowing the number of turns of the tuning peg from a point of zero tension (or some known reference point)?
Intuitively, more turns should equate to higher tension. However, I suspect there are several factors that would make this calculation complex, if not impossible in practice. For example, the initial slack in the string, the radius of the tuning peg, and the elasticity of the string itself would likely play a role.
Are there any simplified models or approaches that could provide an estimate of the tension based on the number of turns? Or is the relationship too dependent on various unknown parameters to be practically useful?
