>I understand the need to add hitch pins. I had a piano >rescaled professionally by one of the top techs >providing this service recently, but it would have >required about 15 new hitch pins. And I was under a >lot of time pressure from the customer, so I just >strung it as original. This doesn't compute, Gordon. First of all, a rescaler shouldn't be adding hitch pins to the requirements without having talked to the rebuilder about it first. If this one did, then you need to have a talk with him. Second, When you had the results of the rescaling in front of you, you still had to get the information to the string maker, which should have easily given you the half hour or so you would have needed to get the hitch pins installed before the strings came back. The time between sending in the old data and getting strings back, and doing the same with new data would be the same - or at least not determined by the data. Third, if you had the piano rescaled professionally, you paid at least the price of a tuning for it and then threw it away when you saw the results. Doesn't compute. >This piano was also very >lighthly ribbeed, so I wondered if heavier guages >would be sensible. No decision is sensible without a sensible reason for the decision. > But what do you mean by "run a scale evalutaion >to make sure it will work".? Please. > Thump The first part of rescaling is looking at the original string data in the scaling spreadsheet or program. You have to know something about what you have to determine what you think you need. That's the scale evaluation. If changes are to take place in the bridges, soundboard, or plate, other things need to be considered. Random guessing from third hand rumors and impressions, though widely practiced, isn't an optimal method. Ron N
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