Mason & Hamlin AA scale.

[Greg Newell]

Welcome back Ron! Care to share any of your experiences from the land down 
under?

Greg Newell





At 01:21 PM 7/27/2004, you wrote:

>>    In the case of the Mason AA which I started this thread discussing 
>> there is any reticence at least on my part to improve this piano. My 
>> only (major) limitation is the plate But which is also true of the old 
>> Stwy A being currently mentioned. I have reproduced one of those with 
>> the original bridge & string scale & with a really good board & bearing 
>> setup it was quite good. In retrospect though the next one will probably 
>> get a closer look in the modification dept. I'm not a fan of the three 
>> bridge config.
>
>I am, more and more, a big fan of the three bridge configuration. In fact, 
>if I were designing a new piano and could design a plate I wanted (rather 
>than working around the existing one), I'd still give first consideration 
>to using three bridges. The poor examples of three bridge configurations 
>we see aren't the result of using three bridges instead of two. They're 
>the result of poor scale AND soundboard design. Rather than trying to 
>tweak the existing scale on top of the original soundboard design, you 
>would be ahead building a board designed to accommodate the bridges 
>designed to accommodate the scale designed to accommodate the existing plate.
>
>There are at least two people posting to this list who do this sort of 
>re-design on a per-piano basis (as opposed to having a specifically 
>established template for every model of every manufacturer that ever 
>existed). Del is one, and I am another. But you knew that.
>
>Ron N
>
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Greg Newell
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