I see. It's just a matter of personal preference -- I don't like my monochords to extend above A13 or my bichords to hit C28. :) At the lowest I like my bichords to hit G11 or F9 (C4 in a Bosendorfer Imperial -- don't know if it's like that) and I like the trichords to extend down to C28, B27, or A#26 (some have them down to F21 or lower maybe -- I happen to like the tone at A25 and down that you get with wound strings). At 04:31 PM 11/26/00 -0800, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Newton Hunt" <nhunt@jagat.com> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org> >Sent: November 26, 2000 12:16 PM >Subject: Re: restringing question > > > > Don't try reinventing the wheel and some of those old guys > > KNEW what they were doing. Don't second guess old > > craftsmen. > > > > Newton >-------------------------------------------------- > >With respect, that wasn't my point at all. I second-guess the old craftsmen >all the time -- there is much that can be improved with most of these old >scales. > >It's just that in this case there is far too little information available. >It sounded to me like an arbitrary change was being contemplated without >sound technical reasoning supporting the change. In general, mono-chords do >not extend up far enough with the transition to bi-chords being made >prematurely. In this case, they are used to what is probably quite a >reasonable point -- at least it seems so without knowing more about the >scale -- and nothing would be gained by making this change. Quite likely, >the results would not be as good as the original. > >Which is not to say that the original scaling itself is reasonable, just >that the number of mono-chords seems reasonable for a scale of this type and >probable size. > >Del _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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