Roy writes: << I have a Chickering 135 scale in the shop presently. There are 4 unisons of wound trichords in the tenor, and then 59 plain wire unisons. 25 bass notes. >> I have rebuilt several of these pianos. The original scale has some quirks in it, though I am not sure what they are. I found that carrying an equal temperament down through the bass is impossible. There are some farily obvious compromises that are required to keep the octaves clean, (the occasional busy fourth or some erratic progression of the thirds). On one of these pianos, I had the Sandersons make up a new scale ( I think it was around 1993 or so). Tey increased the number of bichords on the treble bridge. That piano tuned more evenly than any of the others, however, there seemed to be something missing in the overall sound of the instrument. It didn't sound quite as big, and I don't know why . Regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>Get the Moviefone Toolbar. Showtimes, theaters, movie news & more!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212774565x1200812037/aol?redir=http://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown 00000001)</HTML>
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