restringing question

[Stephen Airy]

I'm curious:  what would be the adverse effects of having trichords below 
C28 in a spinet?  Many pianos that size I see have the trichords down to 
G35 or F33 or around there.

At 08:48 AM 11/27/00 +0100, you wrote:


>Delwin D Fandrich wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
>Grin... Del I would suspect that you do a lot less guessing then you do 
>educated
>experimentation. Big difference between a fellow like yourself dinking around
>with different solutions to old problems, then most of the rest of us.
>
> > 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.
>
>Interesting point... We have a piano sort here in Bergen that used to be made
>here. Jacob Knudsens they were called. From about 1960 to 1973 they made this
>little 110 cm model that had monochord bass strings for the first 20 or so
>strings. I can get the exact number...perhaps even the scale if you like. It
>worked quite well really. Plenty of volume, nice transition to the tenor and
>unwound strings... very popular pianos.
>
> > 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
>
>--
>Richard Brekne
>RPT, N.P.T.F.
>Bergen, Norway


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