I'm curious: what would be the adverse effects of having trichords below C28 in a spinet? Many pianos that size I see have the trichords down to G35 or F33 or around there. At 08:48 AM 11/27/00 +0100, you wrote: >Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > > > > Don't try reinventing the wheel and some of those old guys > > > KNEW what they were doing. Don't second guess old > > > craftsmen. > > > > > > Newton > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > With respect, that wasn't my point at all. I second-guess the old > craftsmen > > all the time -- there is much that can be improved with most of these old > > scales. > >Grin... Del I would suspect that you do a lot less guessing then you do >educated >experimentation. Big difference between a fellow like yourself dinking around >with different solutions to old problems, then most of the rest of us. > > > It's just that in this case there is far too little information available. > > It sounded to me like an arbitrary change was being contemplated without > > sound technical reasoning supporting the change. In general, > mono-chords do > > not extend up far enough with the transition to bi-chords being made > > prematurely. In this case, they are used to what is probably quite a > > reasonable point -- at least it seems so without knowing more about the > > scale -- and nothing would be gained by making this change. Quite likely, > > the results would not be as good as the original. > >Interesting point... We have a piano sort here in Bergen that used to be made >here. Jacob Knudsens they were called. From about 1960 to 1973 they made this >little 110 cm model that had monochord bass strings for the first 20 or so >strings. I can get the exact number...perhaps even the scale if you like. It >worked quite well really. Plenty of volume, nice transition to the tenor and >unwound strings... very popular pianos. > > > Which is not to say that the original scaling itself is reasonable, just > > that the number of mono-chords seems reasonable for a scale of this > type and > > probable size. > > > > Del > >-- >Richard Brekne >RPT, N.P.T.F. >Bergen, Norway _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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