sanderson Bass strings/scale

[John Delacour]

At 9:15 AM -0800 11/30/01, Delwin D Fandrich wrote:

>Sorry, John. Obviously I've offended you. I guess it was just my
>over-reaction to being informed that, in your opinion, I was both
>presumptuous (for thinking I could improve Steinway pianos by altering their
>perfectly shaped and located bridges)

On the contrary, I said more than once that reshaping and relocating 
bridges was perfectly acceptable and often very desirable:-

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At 6:58 PM +0000 11/29/01, I wrote:
>Customers often ask me to look at the plain wire scale and "rescale" 
>it.  I always have a look to see if any minor changes are desirable 
>but the fact is that it is not possible to "rescale" the plain wire 
>scale without fitting a new bridge, since it is the bridge and not 
>primarily the wire gauges that define the scale.

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At 12:25 AM +0000 11/30/01, I wrote:
>I obviously need to repeat that to do anything more than mess about 
>a little bit with the gauges to remove any blips is pointless and 
>that anything more, without changing the bridge, will, on a 
>Steinway, have a bad effect
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>  and stupid (for altering the stringing scale on those hundreds of 
>Steinway grands I rebuilt over the years and thinking their sound 
>actually improved as a result).

Presumably you have altered the scale slightly on those pianos where 
you have not altered the bridge and altered the scale more radically 
in the other cases, where your redesigning of the bridge in the light 
of a wholly better string scale has allowed you to apply better 
principles.  Where's the argument?  That's precisely what I have said 
and I have no doubt of your skills or the excellence of your results. 
I just wish you'd learn to read better and not jump to conclusions.

JD