Replacing Bass strings w/o treble/restringing

[Farrell]

I'm not an expert on rescaling. That is why each time I have restrung a piano in the past, I have had David Sanderson do the scaling. I was being a little bit facetious when I said to evaluate it and see if you like it (just a little though). Perhaps I should have said to just simply rescale - you can always improve a scale (well, just about any) - especially a 60-year-old Baldwin Howard, or an Estey, or an Aeolian, or a ..............

One of the big things I think a good scaler will improve is fixing large changes in inharmonicity and tension across the scale. When you have big changes in these factors - you hear it, and you can't always be successful in voicing them out. If you smooth these factors out, you will tend to have a nice even and balanced sounding scale.

If your Howard has plain wires to the tenor/bass break, I think it is pretty safe to say: "Rescale It!"

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <HazenBannister@cs.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: Replacing Bass strings w/o treble/restringing


> In a message dated 04/30/2002 10:55:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes:
> 
> 
> > Always re-evaluate the scale. If you like it after looking at the numbers, 
> > go with it, if you don't like it, change it.
> > 
> > Terry Farrell
> >   
> > 
> 
> At the risk of the dumb sounding dumb,how do you know if you like it or 
> not,by looking? Baldwin,or whoever ,sold the piano with this scale.I've been 
> restring
> ing,but not changing the scale,because of uncertainty.
> Hazen Bannister
>