Rescaling for older soundboards

[Ron Nossaman]

>Since an aging soundboard will presumably be less stiff with less
>available crown, does it make sense, when restringing over an old board,
>to consider rescaling the piano with a lower tension scale.
>
>David Love

I don't think so. I'd much rather see both the soundboard and the scale 
brought up to higher performance standards than to see the rest of the 
system compromised to try to accommodate a crippled soundboard. In my shop, 
if the old soundboard stays, I'll re-scale (mostly the bass) to smooth and 
balance, and I'll set downbearing to try to accommodate the old board, but 
the section tensions will be mostly unchanged. .

Ron N