Sanderson Scaling/Terry F

[Stephen Airy]

On Wed, 1 May 2002 16:23:09 -0400, "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
said:
> 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.

I don't want to take the plate out.  The bass bridge does have some
small cracks on the speaking side hitch pins, so they would need to be
glued.
I could settle for using the same scale.  If I change anything about
it, though, I do not want any wound strings above C3.  (that's the
lowest plain trichord now.)

> 
> 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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> > 
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> 

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