The "Jolly Loop" was RE: Andres punchings

[Greg Newell]

I spoke with Mr. Arledge once at the convention in Chicago and asked him 
about scale designs. He mentioned that he changed bass scales on everything 
he made. I asked if I did my own scale and sent it to him , would he 
replicate my design or change it? He indicated that he would probably 
change it if he saw the need to. This is all paraphrased from a poor memory 
but that is what I remember. I have not tried his strings being rather 
happy with Mapes who follows what I send them quite faithfully. I wonder if 
Del's recalculated scale was actually produced or not.

Greg Newell



At 10:46 PM 4/7/2005, you wrote:
>I did try a set of Arledge strings with the “Jolly Loop”.  S&S model 
>O.  While the piano also had a new soundboard with a modified bass bridge 
>which shortened the cantilever and extended the backscale a bit, not to 
>mention recalculated bass scale (thank you Del Fandrich), the bass quality 
>on this instrument was exceptional.
>
>
>David Love
>davidlovepianos@comcast.net
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On 
>Behalf Of Roger Jolly
>Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:17 PM
>To: Pianotech
>Subject: Re: Andres punchings
>
>
>You tried those strings yet Dale????????? ;-)
>
>Roger
>
>
>At 09:06 AM 4/7/2005, you wrote:
>
>In a message dated 4/6/2005 7:20:08 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
>Erwinspiano writes:
>Hi Andre
>   Hey the punchings are remarkable. I proved it again on a Mason AA I 
> just went thru. I redesigned the board with a modest bass cut off & fish 
> in the treble. My first experiment in that realm. We had done the action 
> first and we had the green punching in there. Having worked with the tone 
> , tuning and reg which was quite good I had a very definite opinion about 
> the sound which was great  but when I changed the punchings the sound 
> just  went into another realm. It's uncanny. WOW..
>   I have a dozen sets of the ususal dark green stuff  I'm going to send back!
>  Also I like roger ideas about a wurzen let-off punching. What say ye
>    Regards.
>   Dale
>    BTW Setting aftertouch is  so precise. What a dream

Greg Newell
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