> [Original Message] > From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> > To: <joegarrett at earthlink.net>; <pianotech at ptg.org> > Date: 1/8/2012 6:28:44 AM > Subject: Re: [pianotech] string scale > > On 1/7/2012 5:03 PM, Joseph Garrett wrote: > > Dean, > >-- I know that it is their intent to make it > > a whole lot more of a piano than what it was originally. > > Yes, it is. I don't black the plate lettering, nor put a soundboard > decal on the pianos I redesign, because neither the plate nor the > soundboard are as they were originally built. > That would be my approach with such an endeavor.<G> > > >The one given, > > that is difficult to alter, is the plate. It is the one parameter that we > > have to deal with. > > Once you've ground off the front duplexes, moved the agraffes back to > retain the strike ratio through the transition bridge, changed wrapped > trichords to bichords, and installed vertical hitches, the plate gets > some fairly extensive modification too. But yea, it does present > limitations. Since I have never done any of those items, I'll take your word that it's all possible.<G> > > > > Just Evaluating a Scale and making minor corrections that are dictated by > > anomolies of the bridges, etc. is merely Scale Improvement to me. > > What would you call it?<G>l > > I call it rescaling. I also call what I do when I'm turning tuning pins > for someone "tuning", though I make no claims that it's the best > possible, or even a complete tuning. It definitely is a tuning > improvement though... Well, I guess. sigh....<G> > Ron N
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