newby questions about scale

[Tyler Smith]

>involved than just quality.  It seems to be a re-engineering of sorts.  Is
>it possible to just specify the piano make and string length and order a set
>of strings that sound better?

Possibly, but probably only in the bass section and only if it was 
strung with crummy strings in the first place. (strings with really 
buzzy windings, or something like that)

Everybody is worried about rescaling pianos because the way certain 
pianos were originally strung (which keys have which size strings) 
makes it impossible to perfectly voice them, makes one section 
inappropriately more powerful than another, makes them prone to 
string breakage, or any number of other problems.

They're just looking at the piano's dimensions and so forth and 
coming up with a plan for string sizes that will result in the 
smoothest transitions from one string size to another.

-Tyler