Folks, I'm midpoint in my new block and restring project (1977 and previously restrung w/4/0) and find a question arising re:sizes at bottom of tenor section. I carefully miked the strings and found 20/19/18. Cleaning the bridge, I found markings for 19/18.5/18. I was planning to reuse the bass strings, so haven't measured them, but wonder if those of you who rescale as a matter of course would find a better scaling using the larger plain wire. Just intuitively, I would think that the larger wire at that point would lower the inharmonicity and make the break even harder to smooth over. I'm thinking that I'll go back to the bridge markings vs:found sizes. I've been wrong before. -- Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT - Keyboard Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076
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