I have an opinion. On many pianos, usually ones that start plain wire immediately after the break, I find the first few tenor notes a little hard to tune and that they end up with a tone that is a little whiny and inconsistent in tone quality with notes just a little bit higher. I think it's because the scale is designed so they have too little tension. Often thought I might experiment with a 1/2 size larger wire on notes like that, but I don't know the in's, out's, how's, where's, why's, and whatfor's of scale design so I'm chicken. Anyway, I think (?) I'd rather have wound triplets than low-tension plain-wire. Exception: I do not want any wound strings higher than E3, I like all plain-wire temperaments. BTW I tune a 1904 Chickering upright that appears, on first glance, to have about 371 wound strings on the bass bridge. Buncha triples. Alan R. Barnard Salem, MO -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Airy Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 2:52 PM To: Piano Tech list - PTG Subject: Re: Trichords on a Spin-it<G> Speaking of wound trichords on a piano, which do you think is better on a concert grand, a scale like what's in a Yamaha CFIIIs (with wound trichords), or one like in a Bosendorfer 280 (bichords to the break and plain trichords, no wound ones)? -- Stephen Airy stephenairy@fastmail.fm _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.489 / Virus Database: 288 - Release Date: 6/10/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.489 / Virus Database: 288 - Release Date: 6/10/2003
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