Speaking of Steinway grand sizes

[Mike Spalding]

Ric,

I'll second what Patrick has stated.  Steinway is not known for putting 
the bridges and plate in the same relationship every time.  Further, 
their wire diameter selections in the low bass can be improved upon.  If 
you still want scale data from the original strings, I can send it to 
you, but you'll get better sound by providing precise length 
measurements to a stringmaker and having him/her calculate diameters.

Mike

J Patrick Draine wrote:
> Ric,
> While I can understand some reluctance to "rescale" this Steinway 
> (i.e. depart from the original bass scale), I think it would be very 
> wise to provide Hellerbass with precise measurements of the bass' 
> string lengths. If, for example, they were still "playing around" with 
> the bass scale of this model at that time you could (or might 
> possibly) get into some unintended results by copying a "similar" bass 
> scale.
> Patrick Draine
>
> On Feb 6, 2008 1:48 AM, Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no 
> <mailto:ricb at pianostemmer.no>> wrote:
>  
>
>       I'd like to have the original scale numbers to
>     send off to Hellerbass
>
>     Cheers
>     RicB
>