String scaling

[Newton Hunt]

Alternative methods involve looking at several important elements of
scaling, tension, inharmonicity, breaking% and loudness factors and
knowing what you are looking at when you see them.

Knowing how changing one factor influences another factor.

Making changes in the treble wires is not real important but making
changes in the bass strings could have a profound effect on the tone of
a piano.  

It is not difficult, after all, I do it all the time, but I have also
been at it for more than 30 years.

Tremain Parsons program PScale works well for me.  

I do scaling for the trade because I have the time to enter the numbers
and play with the numbers until I get something that looks like a piano.

Old pianos, and many new pianos, have egregious error in scaling,
sometimes they can be changed to make a piano appear 12 inches longer
than it is.  

Get the program, play with it, have a couple of sets made and see how
you like the sound.  Some pianos are near impossible to improve easily,
others just almost rescale themselves.

		Newton