Dave, If it's a one-off replacement and you don't want to measure, call Mapes directly and they'll send it to you. They'll know - they supply all of the strings for S&S. I'm not sure if the scaling changed at all between 1920 and current, but, given your criteria, I'm not sure it matters. Among other things you're now going to have a new string mixed with 90 year old bass strings - or however old they are if they were ever replaced at some point. There will be some tonal incongruity no matter what you do (short of replacing all the bass strings), so I'm not sure any possible scaling changes are relevant for your application. Any chance of splicing the old string? William R. Monroe On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:02 AM, David Renaud <drjazzca at yahoo.ca> wrote: > Would the list know if any of the string makers have the standards scaling > for a Steinway L. I'm trying to save a long distance trip to measure > F#1 on a Steinway L to order one string. > > Even better, perhaps someone on the estemed list has stock measurments > for F#1 on a Steinway L, 1920's. Being a single replacement I am > assuming that the stock measurment used by the factory is suffieient. > > All the string makers I have spoken to want me to get the measuments.... > this invovles an extra hour travel. Something as common as a steinway L > must have a standard string scale that works within about a mm. > > If being tempted by such practice is cheating .......fire away. > Perhaps I should forget this bright idea and go measure it.....? > If someone has those measures it will put a smile on my face...... > > Cheers > Dave Renaud > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090810/2acb927c/attachment.htm>
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