Apart from the issue of different gauge sizes, and by way of complimenting the information Mark Cramer got from David Durban, Greg Frank said that Yamaha has always noted their wire sizes at the beginning of each section, assuming stringing was done from tenor going up, so wire size would always indicate strings to the right of the marking on their pianos. David Skolnik At 06:06 PM 10/13/2005 -0500, you wrote: >>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 > > >Of course, mic it. These would be metric sizes, which are 0.0005" smaller >in diameter in the #13 wire gage, to 0.0007" smaller in #20 gage, so they >aren't quite a half size smaller than AWG, but are exactly right if you're >using metric gage wire. > >Ron N >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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