Hi Susan, I just got some string scale info from Hubbard for our instrument here. Ours is a French double from the 60's and significantly rebuilt in the 1990's by my predecessor, Mark Story who did a great job. New board, bridges, tuning pin plank, transposing keyboard, new jacks. Still needs lots of tweaking, but with a solid foundation. I can send you a copy of the scale info if you want. Or just contact Hubbard. Alan -- Alan McCoy, RPT Eastern Washington University amccoy at mail.ewu.edu 509-359-4627 > From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> > Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org> > Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 19:44:33 -0700 > To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org> > Subject: Re: [CAUT] Touch ups.. (and I ain't talking about makeup) > > At 09:50 PM 5/8/2006 -0400, you wrote: >> This is a Hubbard kit harpsichord made in 1979 with uhhhhh.... "personal >> problems" and man did I know it. >> I *was* on the nervous side during the whole concert, but I must admit it >> was a good boy. > > Yeah, yesterday I put two brass strings on the college's one. > Not much practice at that, but they held. The loops matched > the originals, the second coil was better than the first, but > both were better than a lot of the wire on there. (No wonder > they break like sugar threads, with all those cobbles, kinks, > overlaps, etc.) I wonder if I should study up a little more, > order some good wire, try to obtain the original scaling (so > much replaced wire it's anybody's guess at the moment) and > sell them a restringing of the thing. It was made in 1975. > > I tuned it carefully, but when the continuo cello is just a > trace sharp (they tend to do that, the sharpness enhances > the cello tone as they hear it) it hardly matters how > well one tuned. >
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