[CAUT] Bass bridge, string scale, cantilevered bridge, tone

[Alan McCoy]

Hi Jim and Ron (and others),

I do not have enough first-hand experience with especially short-scale
instruments that have been recipient of the kind of treatment that the
Brodmann thread was about, namely new string scale with a shorter speaking
length, longer backlength, no cantilever. But I am curious about what kind
of tonal change I might anticipate if I were to rescale, say,  a Kawai GE-1.

Would anyone be interested in describing what would be the likely tonal
result with these changes to this short-scale piano? I know words won't
likely do justice to it, but I'd be interested to hear anyway.

BTW, this isn't idle curiosity.

Thanks.

Alan


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