Short backscales

[Ron Nossaman]

>In contrast to the Chickering with the long backscales, attached are two 
>pictures of a "Schomacher" grand. The Schomacher was somewhat of a 
>"Steinway clone", with a Steinway-style action and a "bell", though there 
>is little else that resembles a Steinway in it. I can't find the serial 
>number offhand so can't tell you the date, but I suspect it's from the 1920s.
>
>The bass section has the shortest backscale I've ever seen and the tone in 
>the bass is abominable, IMO.
>
>                 John

Amazing! And the whole length of the bridge too, instead of just the last 
half dozen strings. That's pretty relentless. The tenor looks to have a 
decent length back scale, and there's room to move the bass bridge forward 
far enough to just about double it's back scale. But they didn't.

Ron N