[Stephen Airy]

OK here it is:

It's my 1913 Ricca & Son upright.

The break is at B27/C28 with the lowest trichord plain
note being C28.

--- Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Airy" <stephen_airy@yahoo.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: August 11, 2001 3:00 PM
> Subject: Re:
> 
> 
> > I was thinking based on A. where the break SHOULD
> be,
> 
> A:  You've still not provided enough information to
> give a reasonable and
> considered answer. Such an answer is probably well
> beyond the scope of
> anything that is going to be answered on pianotech
> anyway. At least it's
> well anything I'm going to try to answer here.
> 
> 
> 
> > or B, based on where the break currently is on
> similar
> > pianos (Baldwin L, 6'1" Yamaha for example) made
> > within the last 5 years.
> 
> B:  Typically the bass/tenor break is somewhere
> around E-20/F-21 though
> nowadays some manufacturers are trying to patch poor
> initial scaling by
> running some wrapped bi-chords up into the tenor
> section.
> 
Most bass/tenor breaks I've seen on 6' grands are
around A#26/B27 -- I see E20/F21 on 7' and larger
usually.  My mom's PG-150 YC has it at A#26/B27 with
wrapped bichords running up to F#34.

> The fact that these pianos may have been made in the
> past five years is
> meaningless. Most of the initial scale design work
> the "modern" piano is
> based on was done decades or centuries ago.
> 
> 
> 
> > I will soon be replying and
> > telling where it is on the piano I'm talking
> about.
> 
> Good. Let's try doing this sooner rather than later.
> 
> Del
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