Sanderson Scaling/Terry F

[Farrell]

I assume your two questions are one in the same. To answer your question, forget adding wound tricords. If you want to switch from plain tricords to wound bicords, just use the two outer holes of the agraffe and the two outer sets of bridge pins. Existing hitch pins may work fine, or you may need to cut the old ones off (or puch them out) and install new pins. Really quite easy to do.

Suggestion: If you just want to replace old strings and not take the plate out and not improve the bridges, etc., just duplicate the old strings. If you want to do a complete job, then tear it apart and do it right.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Airy" <stephenairy@fastmail.fm>
To: "Piano Tech list - PTG" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: Sanderson Scaling/Terry F

> 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?

> Is it possible, say, on a large grand (like 7 foot or longer) with
> non-individual-hitch-pin plain wire scaling (the type in which the
> string comes from a tuning pin, around the hitch pin, and the same
> piece of wire goes to the next tuning pin), to change plain trichords
> to wound trichords?
> 
> On Wed, 01 May 2002 10:19:49 -0400, "Newton Hunt" <nhunt@optonline.net>
> said:
> > Trichords can be replaced with bichords with no penalty.  Easier to
> > make also.
> > 
> > Newton
> > 
> > Tyler Punky Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > > What do all you rescaling experts think about bass scales that start
> > > with very lightly wound trichords low on the treble bridge, then into
> > > heavier bichord and monochord unisons? Intuitively, it sounds like a
> > > good idea to me, if smoothing the break as much as possible is the
> > > goal.
> > > 
> > > -Tyler
> > 
> 
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