But the key thing is Japanese pianos have string sizes 1/2 size smaller than the size number, i.e. 13.5 is 13 etc....how we figure out whether it is towards bass or towards the treble from the stamp for me generally is as you say...wherever the stamp starts...tenor or treble....BUT if we do that on a Yamaha, I believe, we are installing a 1/2 size too big wire....MIC IT!!!!! David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> Received: 10/13/2005 2:46:26 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] 1966 G-2 THANKS ALL!! >>> In other words it doesn't always start at the tenor bridge and go >>> up...am I as clear as mud? >>> >>> >> >> Common sense makes us want to think this way, but I don't think >> manufacturers always are using a whole lot of that. Matter of fact, >> this thread's got me wondering how many times I might have used the >> wrong wire size replacing a single broken wire. >Common sense is an oxymoron. Ask around. I figure that if there is >such a thing as an implied wire gage at the top or bottom, when >everything else is marked, the system is brain dead and one random >guess is as good as any other. So I chose to believe, and it is >faith based, that no manufacturer is that insane in this particular >detail. Along those lines, I take the last size marked at either the >top or bottom, and extend to the ends of the bridge, make sure the >counts jibe with the number placements after you've thus established >the stringing direction, and take it from there. The numbers are >there so we don't HAVE to remember which way the count goes. We can >figure it out from the placement of the numbers and hitch pattern >(if necessary). >Ron N >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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