Help!!! I 've got a problem . I am rebuilding a 1902 Bechstein Upright, Model V (85 note) Serial Number 28557 and I have misplaced (read lost, the dog ate them.......) some of my tear-down notes, namely the treble wire scale micrometer measurements. To tell the truth, I didn't have much faith in those measurements anyway, as the piano has been re-strung previously and I regarded the scaling as I received it as specious. Do any of you have this scale in your files? If not, I guess I'll have to do all the measurements and calculations [sigh :-( ]. O well. This piano has 28 plain wire unisons beginning with C#3 to the treble break, then 28 plain wire unisons to the top A7. There are 15 Single bass strings and 14 bi-chord unisons. The bass bridge is an extension of the treble bridge. Any help would be much appriciated. BTW, does anyone remember the Klepac Chart. It was a method of devising a plain wire scale for a piano by measuring the speaking length, finding that length on the chart and reading the wire size. I never used it, and don't plan to, but ran across a copy while looking for my #@!%* teardown notes. Did this ever have any validity? Just wondering. Paul Dempsey Marshall University wippen@aol.com
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