Missing bass string

[Jim]

Hi Ted:

I carry a steel tape with the end hook removed. This allows slipping the
tape under the upt.Bass dampers for measuring the speaking length.  You
also do not have to add half a bridge pin diameter when you butt the tape
against the bridge pin.  The tape is also good for measuring treble
string lengths on grands because you can butt the this blade up under the
Capo Bar til it stops and then read length from the back side of the
bridge pin.

Now, why would you want to measure treble string lengths?
Only if you do computerized rescaling when rebuilding grands.

Jim Coleman, Sr.

On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Ted Simmons wrote:

> I tuned an Acrosonic spinet yesterday that had a bass string missing and it
> wasn't stored at the bottom of the piano as is often found..  The owner
> wanted a replacement and not a universal installed.  It's an older
> Acrosonic and Baldwin doesn't have the scale for it so they sent what they
> thought would work.  It didn't.  Does anyone have an accurate way to take
> measurements to order a new string?  I don't want to remove the action and
> I can't get a steel roll-up tape measure past the dampers.
>
> Ted Simmons, Merritt Island, FL
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