Hazen's Question re. rescaling/liking/knowing.

[Farrell]

While I have no doubt this is best, I strung an Estey microgrand a while back that came to me with no strings. David Sanderson worked with only my measured speaking lengths and hitch-pin to forward bridge pin measurements to develop a new scale for the instrument. I was extremely pleased with the results.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Newton Hunt" <nhunt@optonline.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: Hazen's Question re. rescaling/liking/knowing.


> > One of the main factors of Scaling an existing piano, is that the scaler HAS
> > to evaluate what is on the piano, originally, and determine the INTENT of
> > the DESIGNER. To arbitrarily change things to get what you think the piano
> > should be, without this consideration is ludicrous IMHO.
> 
> Thank you Joe, you write so well for me.  I wish I had said that, for it is
> quite true especially in that changing the overall tension of the piano is
> hazardous at best.
> 
> Newton