----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Conover" <locolesco@yahoo.com> To: "PTG List" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 3:06 PM Subject: Steinway console scale > Hello, List, > I have a 1939 Steinway console to restring. The > plate has the scale on it, as usual, and I know the > common wisdom is to use it. Steinway's manual has > quite a different scale for the console. After > analyzing both scales I don't like either one for this > piano. They both have areas of really low tension > and, for a console, really high tension. Does anybody > know if, when Steinway changed the scale, they also > redesigned the curve of the long bridge? I know this > is the lowliest of Steinways, but I'd like to make the > best of it. > Thanks, Les Conover > Les, I think I'd vote for a 1098 vertical, with teflon bushings as the lowliest of Steinways. Tom Driscoll
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