Hi Ed: The extra half inch shouldn't make that much difference to the overall tone. I would suspect something else. It was very common in the early days to have around 3/4 inch unwrapped length. A shorter unwrapped length would lower the inharmonicity a little, but it seems like there must be something else robbing the tone. Jim Coleman, Sr. On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 A440A@aol.com wrote: > Greetings all, > > Somebody tell me something. I finally got the customer with the lousy > sounding M&H to agree to new bass strings. The bottom end on this piano > always sounded bad. It is a model B, and my question is this. > The bass windings all stop 1 inch from either end of the speaking length. > This seems excessive, and I wonder if that is why this piano has never > sounded like I am familiar with M&H pianos sounding like. > Should I should ask Mapes to add 1/2 inch on either end? I don't do my > own scaling, but it seems it will require more tension to reach pitch this > way, and I wonder if I should replace with what is there. This piano is # > 58,000 and appears to have been made for installation of a repro action, > which was never installed. > > Thanks, > Ed Foote >
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