small vs large grands

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 08:31 AM 9/30/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi Vladan,
>
>Uprights just don't repeat in the same way as a well regulated grand. I
>don't think it has anything to do with adversion to looks.
>
>Rumor has it that 121 cm uprights have equivalent length strings to a 185
>cm grand. Is this true?


Don,


They may advertise equivalent soundboard area... ;-}

However,  I suppose it depends on what upright and what grand.

I don't have any 121cm upright scales at hand, but the old Yamaha C3 
(184cm?) we have here has a 53"/~135cm A0.
I have a _148_cm upright at home which only has a 50.25"/127.6cm 
A0.  That's a little more than a Baldwin R (172cm ?).

I'd think that a 121cm upright with 135cm A0 would have a _really_ angled 
set of bass strings.



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