On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 08:37:36 +1200 "Stephen Powell" <pianotec@ihug.co.nz> writes: >I am looking at purchasing a piano scaling program. The most obvious >seem to be PSCALE and Winscale. Any advice on which way to go here? >Is one more user-friendly than the other? Hi Stephen, Since the only program I have ever used is PSCALE, I will give you my totally biased endorsement of it. I have done between 20 and 30 scales this way and have found the following. They get better with practice. Even the first attempts are very good. The program is excellent and carefully designed. There is a learning curve, but it is well worth your time and effort. Tremaine Parsons has spent much time with me on the phone giving tech. support and I cannot praise him enough. The recent additions to PSCALE allow for the direct e-mail of string data to manufacturers like James Arledge as well as traditional printouts to any other string winder. Data entry has been made so easy that it almost does itself (well, not quite that easy). Once I put the measurements directly into my laptop while I unstrung the piano, but blank data charts can be printed out to use as work sheets. Adjusting plain wire sections is also easily accomplished. The program is capable of calculations for copper, iron and aluminum wraps. It will calculate your total tension at any time. When I heard last at Providence last summer, Tremaine was working on an upgrade that would look for and help eliminate transverse waves. This will be an upgrade sometime in the future. Sorry that I can't give an unbiased comparison, but I am very well satisfied with PSCALE. Paul McMillin, RPT Carlisle, PA
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