[CAUT] Bass bridge, string scale, cantilevered bridge, tone

[Wigent, Donald E, Jr]

Hi every one, Don wigent here.  I have just aquired a Kawai KG2d  and I
need to restring and re damper it.  I am thinking of replacing the
bottom two notes of the tenor section, B and C with 2 string unisons
rather than strait wire which is I think number 19.2. These notes sound
quite baunky.  Any comments. By the way does anyone have the scale for
this piano, it is not on the bridge.
Don  

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Ron Nossaman
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:43 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Bass bridge, string scale, cantilevered bridge, tone

> Hi Jim and Ron (and others),
> 
> I do not have enough first-hand experience with especially short-scale
> instruments that have been recipient of the kind of treatment that the
> Brodmann thread was about, namely new string scale with a shorter
speaking
> length, longer backlength, no cantilever. But I am curious about what
kind
> of tonal change I might anticipate if I were to rescale, say,  a Kawai
GE-1.
> 
> Would anyone be interested in describing what would be the likely
tonal
> result with these changes to this short-scale piano? I know words
won't
> likely do justice to it, but I'd be interested to hear anyway.
> 
> BTW, this isn't idle curiosity.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Alan

Hi Alan,
In general, you get a clearer rounder low bass, with less thin 
high partial clang.
Ron N