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

[Ron Nossaman]

> 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

Hi Alan,
In general, you get a clearer rounder low bass, with less thin 
high partial clang.
Ron N