"Fish"....my best guess...

[Terry]

Vladan wrote:
>
> I recently looked at the scales of the various
> Steinway pianos, keeping in mind that the current
> practice in scale design aims to keep uniform tension
> within a section.  The models B and A - two of the
> most coveted S&S pianos - have relatively uneven
> tensions in the low tenor.  Yet the pianos do work.

Correct. But I think an interesting question is: Do they work as well as
they can?

>  I
> have never had a chance to hear instruments with
> modified scales side by side, so I can't judge if the
> original design improves greatly by rescaling, but I
> know that there are many pianos with scales that show
> very even tensions and yet I don't like the way they
> sound/feel.  Again, it's rarely any one thing that
> makes a complex thing work well.

Terry Farrell