----- Original Message ----- From: "Overs Pianos" <sec@overspianos.com.au> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: September 18, 2001 4:30 PM Subject: Re: 1 string, 2 strings, 3 strings or more > > >. . . Without changing any bridges or anything, a perfectly > >acceptable break can be achieved on any reasonable-sized grand or > >upright simply through good string scaling > > Can't agree. There are pianos which have such a poor choice of sound > board area or bridge placement or both, that string scaling alone > will not fix the tonal problems. Del alluded to this in an earlier > post on this thread. Scaling alone will not solve the bass/tenor transition of the S&S Model B. Nor will putting a few bi-chord unisons on the low end of the tenor bridge, though it is certainly a couple of steps in the right direction. It really requires a transition bridge. We've tried them all. > > >There are, of course, cases where I would love to reshape the long > >bridge if the job would stand it, but if a piano has lasted 100 > >years sounding good with a less than perfectly shaped bridge, I > >reckon it deserves to carry on for another 100 or so without losing > >its defects of character. Depends on whether or not those defects of character are audibly offensive to the musician. If they are I see no reason for it to carry on for another 100 years offending the very folks it's supposed to be pleasing when a new bridge(s) and some revised scaling can solve most of the problem. Del
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