[CAUT] rescale bass strings

[David Love]

I'd be curious to know what they considered "technically correct".  

David Love
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-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Mark
Dierauf
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 4:03 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] rescale bass strings

John Delacour wrote:
>
> If by modifying the scale you can achieve less audible breaks, then 
> that is clearly an improvement in anybody's book
Not so fast...When Mason & Hamlin  first moved to Haverhill, MA, the 
model BB's that they were building  included several unisons of wound 
bichords in the tenor. This feature was dropped soon after and the scale 
reverted to plain trichords in this section. When I expressed my 
surprise I was told that "While [the rescaling] was technically correct 
it was not embraced by some of the end customers". I heard from another 
source that one or more of the cellists at the BSO had objected to the 
timbre of the wound bichords when playing chamber music.

- Mark Dierauf