Replacing Bass strings w/o treble/restringing

[Stephen Airy]

On Wed, 1 May 2002 07:19:42 -0400, "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
said:
> 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!"
> 


My 56" upright has plain wires down to C3 (27-note bass).  If I have it
rescaled, is there a way to do it without changing to wound bichords,
or is there a way to use wound trichords in the tenor if I need wound
strings there?


> 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
> > 
> 
> 

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