weird scale

Ron Nossaman nossaman@SOUTHWIND.NET
Fri, 4 Dec 1998 18:09:26 -0600 (CST)


 
>
>A 1912 Kimball, 5' grand.  The numbers say the following scale is the best for
>the existing string lengths. 
>Treble stringing chart;
>
>14.5     4
>15        20    
>15.5     2
>16        11
>16.5     2
>17        4
>17.5     4
>18        2
>18.5     2
>19        2
>19.5     4
>20        1
>
>     The original scale was nothing at all like this, it had no half sizes,
>and went in large groups of notes.  This will be interesting. 
>Regards, 
>Ed Foote
>

Wow! I'd like to see those speaking lengths and original total tension. Very
strange.

 Ron 



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