[CAUT] wound string spacing

[Keith Roberts]

Make a tapered strip

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote:

>   On Mar 22, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Jurgen Goering wrote:
>
>   On most pianos, the lowest few bi-chords benefit a different damper felt
> geometry than the thinner strings further up.  As well, on many pianos the
> bi-chords are more widely spaced down at the bottom, which is what my
> original query about the agraffe hole spacing was about.
>
>   Yes, and really it is nice to have a range of narrow and wide. It would
> be lovely to be able to buy two or three different degrees of narrow/wide,
> all for the same piano. Steinway Ds need some extra narrow trichords for the
> bass wound trichords, completely different from the plain wire trichords
> above the break.  It's a little hard to know how to measure. Unless you
> have a lovely custom tool for the purpose. I can see inserting a wedge and
> marking and miking, but that would be off by a bit. Are the thicker strings
> as wide as the space (one could see which one fit tightly)? I'm thinking you
> need to have a standard way of measuring if you are wanting to get usable
> results.
>
> Regards,
> Fred Sturm
> University of New Mexico
> fssturm at unm.edu
>
>
>
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