Many of us noticed that the rescaling of the recently made Mason & Hamlin BBs with the addition of wound bichords at the bottom of the understrung section created a poor tone in that section even though the graphs of inharmonicity were "Improved". The BB I saw at the Orlando Institute was back to the old scale with steel strings all the way down the treble section and it sounds better. David C. Stanwood >Hi Ed > >Del is,as always, 100% correct. If you could see a graph and veiw the >inharmonicity and tension of that scaling after entering the necessary >components (speaking length, core diameter and wrap diameter you would be >somewhat apalled. Nearly all pianos of that vintage and quite a few of >recent vintage can be appreciably improved by proper rescaling....not >just the bass...but the entire piano.
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