On 04/13/2012 09:05 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > On 4/12/2012 2:26 PM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft wrote: >> I am restringing a piano that calls for 19 1/2 wire (2 note - 6 strings) >> near the tenor break after 4 notes (8 strings) that are wound. I find >> that I am out of 19 1/2 (.044), so I borrowed some wire for another >> tech, that wasn't tagged. I measured it and it reads (.0435). Might be >> metric? What do you think, use it or wait for the 19 1/2, .044?I don't >> think .005 will make mush of a difference, but it is at the break and >> that causes me to worry. I hate thumpy sounding wire strings at the break. > > > Al, > There will always be people who will recoil in absolute horror that someone would even consider using a wire size that > isn't precisely identical to what was there originally, whether what was there originally was measured to anywhere > near this level of accurately or not. If you were to bother to check, as metric/english charts have been provided on > this list at least a dozen times since you've been here and you must surely have saved one, you would find that #20 > metric is closer than #19 1/2. Or you could ORDER what you want and wait a couple of days to get your EXACT heart's > desire. But everyone demands instant gratification without inconvenience, let alone actual work or waiting, right? > > Will what you have work? Yes. Will it be detectably different than the EXACT match. No, at least not by anyone in a > blind test. Will the low tenor break be thumpy? If it was before restringing, YES, certainly! The reason as I and > others who have bothered to learn something about scaling have said on this list repeatedly is that the low tenor > string lengths are too short for the required frequency and the break% of the wires too low. We have also repeatedly > said that changing wire sizes will NOT fix this, as the break% does NOT realistically change with wire gauge changes. > Fixing it requires changing bridges (therefore speaking lengths), and wishing otherwise won't change the reality. > > Regarding rescaling. As we've also said repeatedly on list, the big benefits to rescaling are in the wrapped strings, > where the broader choice of wrap and core gives some control of the outcome. Relatively very little in the way of > improvement is possible in the plain wire without changing speaking lengths. Anyone posting scaling questions to the > list - ever - needs to learn something about what they are doing instead of soliciting one answer to one question and > going back to where they were. > > That's it, the same old answers recycled yet again. No need to save it though. Someone will ask the same thing again > in a few weeks and we'll start from scratch once more. > > Ron N > It must be the fact that it's Friday 13th and/or you must have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed today - chill ! <grin> -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler at att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years
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