Chickering concert grand, scale 131

[Avery]

Cy,

With a piano that old, I think I'd just contact James Arledge about it.
He has a kind of neat system for taking measurements (easy) and sending
that to him and my guess would be that he could make you some strings
that wouldn't do that!

Avery Todd
University of Houston

At 07:06 AM 6/8/2006, you wrote:
>Cy,
>Are these rescaled replacements or copies of copies? I had some bass
>strings on a Beckstein that were "copies of copies" that kept breaking
>on or slightly after installation. In desperation I insisted David
>Sanderson rescale the strings. The samples I was handing him reached
>the target notes at about 600 inch lbs! The rescaled strings worked
>just fine.
>Patrick Draine
>
>
>On 6/8/06, Cy Shuster <cy at shusterpiano.com> wrote:
>>Good question!  I often find it useful to ask "What problem are you trying
>>to solve?".
>>
>>The problem is that the monochords have been replaced several times, and the
>>replacements break in weeks.