Steinway console scale

[Tom Driscoll]

----- 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