Scales/Richard Brekne's question

[Richard Brekne]

Thanks Joe. I would have liked to have gotten more responses, but I suppose
every one is busy elsewhere. The reason I asked was that there are some obvious
questions that arise when one considers the fact that several major piano
manufacturers continue to produce instruments with scales that adherents to the
use of these scaleing programs mean to be able to improve significantly on. This
begs the question "why" ?, and somehow the standard answer of "tradition" or the
like just doesnt quite convince. After reading Benades suggestion that one might
actually view the whole thing, at least to some degree, from a perspective of a
kind of matching up of 2 seperate 2 dimensional plates.. the board and the
"plate" represented by the entire collection of strings comprising the scale...
I just got to wondering what other kinds of priorities have been used to
consider "what a good scale is"

I thought it might be interesting to find out what people thought.

Any ways... Thanks for your reply Joesph. .... that was my brothers name btw...
:)

RicB


Joseph Garrett wrote:

> Richard,
> The main thing that should be considered, in scaling evaluation, is what can
> be changed to the advantage of the instrument. In other words, if you are
> simply replacing strings and not changing the configuration of the plate,
> board & bridges, what can be changed to make it "less bad". A lot of this
> work is intuitive and is gained by doing. Hopefully, the experience is
> gained on pianos of your own or inconsequential re-what-evers. If a new
> board and bridges are to be added to the mix, then there is far more to be
> changed and improved. I advocate an "evaluation" of every piano scale that
> is being redone, if not for improvement, at least to see what the scale is
> and why it turns out as it does. I think this is invaluable to any rebuilder
> and do not understand why, when we have the ability to do this, that more
> are not embracing this technology.
> Regards,
> Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
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