Rafael said: "I?m restringing an upright S&S very old (1869) serial 18175 with a double plate. The string I took out doesn?t seem to be the original ones and therefore I don?t feel the sizes are correct. The sizes are 13 1/2, 14, 14 1/2, 15, 15 1/2, 16 1/2, 17 1/2, 18, 19. I don't have a model for the piano and there is many variation for the uprights cited on The Guide to Restringing. Any suggestions? Any one of you experts know the correct scale for this piano? I thank you all in advance for your valuable suggestions!" Rafael, Hmmm? First, not enough information for proper scaling help. Secondly, I'm wondering what a "double plate" is??? Since I specialize in Olde and Odd painos, that's a term or configuration I've only seen once. That particular incidence was a large upright with a plate in the back of the piano, as well as a plate inside the piano. Both were strung with identical scales. Both shared one sound board. The one on the back could only be tuned by chipping! There was no damping of the back plate/strings, hence it was sympathetically activated by the least little sound! Really an annoying piano to say the least. It was not a Steinway & Sons. It would be nice if you could send some pictures illustrating what you call a "double plate". I'm sure others would be interested, as well. Regards, Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon) Captain, Tool Police Squares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090826/82553073/attachment-0001.htm>
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