Long treble strings.

[Overs Pianos]

Hi Jon and all,

Been away for a few days visiting family, but have been following the threads.

These occurrences (that Jon mentioned below, and Clarke in another 
thread on action geometry) in a piano which holds the high ground 
makes one wonder just how bad things have to get before reputations 
get damaged. It seems that if you surround yourself with enough spin 
you can weather just about any problems which crop up.

Many claim that reputations are difficult to make and easy to break, 
but the reality doesn't always seem to follow the claim if you can 
surround yourself with enough spin. It seems that big business and 
big governments all over the world are finding new and inventive ways 
to survive without delivering anything which resembles truth and 
honesty, as long as they can keep spewing out enough spin to counter 
and discredit any detractors. Some of the big picture-things which 
are going on around the world make me wonder if there is going to be 
any future left for truth at all in the conduct of human affairs. I 
hope I'm wrong, but I think the future is quite worrying.

Regarding speaking lengths in the high treble, as Del mentioned a few 
days ago, 53 mm will be quite OK on C88, but I'd worry about going 
any longer. That's the length we've been using on our 225 pianos, 
with a geometric increase in speaking lengths down to the lowest note 
on the long bridge, G#24, with a speaking length of 154 cm. Ideally 
G23 should be a bit longer for better tuning stability, but with 
plate we're using at present we can't go any longer. At 154 cm it has 
the same % of break as the Steinway D at F21. So it has the same 
basic tuning stability as this piano (all other things being equal - 
which they aren't). Anecdotally, our no. 5 at Sydney Conservatorium 
shares a performance space with a late model Hamburg D. The 225 has 
better tuning stability which is quite pleasing since it is getting 
at least as much use.

The latest Hamburg Ds that I've measured have a C88 speaking length 
which is reduced from their previous (nominally) 5.3 cm down to 4.9. 
It's probably intentional since their quality control has improved 
some over the past ten years. S&S have got some pretty fancy gear in 
their Hamburg plant, which certainly disqualifies their pianos from 
being hand built. But the whole idea of building by hand is a myth 
which should have been erased from the vernacular many moons ago.

Ron O.

>I also has a 1938 M in the shop, that length on C8 is 48 mm. A sweet 
>piano, sold :-)
>
>Also, on the S, there is enough negative rear bearing to slip a 
>piece of paper under the strings
>and on the exposed lower adjacent notes (broken strings) the string 
>impressions stop about
>1/4" behind the front pins.
>--
>
>Regards,
>
>Jon Page


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