[pianotech] GH-1s

[David Love]

I was being semi facetious but I know that pushing the tension down doesn't work because I've tried it. The tone just sounds weak and thin.  Poor bass response is a soundboard issue, in my view and that's where you should look to resolve it. That's not to say there aren't bad scales but I don't think that compromising the scale to try and fix a soundboard limitation is the right approach. If the gnarliness of the bass scale is a concern because it may be overdriving the board then it can also be addressed with a lighter and softer hammer. 

I haven't tried the wire you refer to to try and up the bp% so i can't really comment there.

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com
415.407.8320


Jim Ialeggio <jim at grandpianosolutions.com> wrote:

>David wrote:
><Lowering the tension in the bass artificially because the piano is 
>smaller will just create something that is unpleasant or out of balance, 
>in my opinion. Avoiding gnarliness can result is a bass that sounds like 
>a rubber band.
>
>I agree, that while we start with a string scale, the design of the the 
>whole system determines whether the "string scale" works or not. Its not 
>just a string scale or a belly structure or an action setup, or a hammer 
>choice but a whole interdependent system.
>
>But my question to you regarding the above quote would be, how do you 
>know the alternative to gnarliness is rubberband-iness.  There are no 
>modern pianos that I know of, save my experiments,  which have pushed 
>the lower limits of the low tension bass scale to see what would happen. 
>Mainly I think because the tensile strength of modern wire didn't allow 
>the experiment.  How do you know the alternative is rubberband-iness???
>
>Jim Ialeggio
>
>-- 
>Jim Ialeggio	
>jim at grandpianosolutions.com
>978 425-9026
>Shirley Center, MA
>
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