[CAUT] Touch ups.. (and I ain't talking about makeup)

[Alan McCoy]

Hi Susan,

I just got some string scale info from Hubbard for our instrument here. Ours
is a French double from the 60's and significantly rebuilt in the 1990's by
my predecessor, Mark Story who did a great job. New board, bridges, tuning
pin plank, transposing keyboard, new jacks. Still needs lots of tweaking,
but with a solid foundation.

I can send you a copy of the scale info if you want. Or just contact
Hubbard.

Alan


-- Alan McCoy, RPT
Eastern Washington University
amccoy at mail.ewu.edu
509-359-4627


> From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org>
> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org>
> Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 19:44:33 -0700
> To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Touch ups.. (and I ain't talking about makeup)
> 
> At 09:50 PM 5/8/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>> This is a Hubbard kit harpsichord made in 1979 with uhhhhh.... "personal
>> problems" and man did I know it.
>> I *was* on the nervous side during the whole concert, but I must admit it
>> was a good boy.
> 
> Yeah, yesterday I put two brass strings on the college's one.
> Not much practice at that, but they held. The loops matched
> the originals, the second coil was better than the first, but
> both were better than a lot of the wire on there. (No wonder
> they break like sugar threads, with all those cobbles, kinks,
> overlaps, etc.) I wonder if I should study up a little more,
> order some good wire, try to obtain the original scaling (so
> much replaced wire it's anybody's guess at the moment) and
> sell them a restringing of the thing. It was made in 1975.
> 
> I tuned it carefully, but when the continuo cello is just a
> trace sharp (they tend to do that, the sharpness enhances
> the cello tone as they hear it) it hardly matters how
> well one tuned.
>