Grind away a small part of the apron. You don't really need to remove that much. Usually you don't need to remove much. David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Porritt, David Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:45 AM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] Bass bridge, string scale, cantilevered bridge, tone Jim: Just a few minutes ago I was looking at an "M" and the bass bridge if it were brought to the place where the cantilever is attached to the board the lowest end of the bridge looks like it would be off the bridge root and rubbing the plate. What do you do with the last 4 unisons in that case? dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jim Busby Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:38 PM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] Bass bridge, string scale, cantilevered bridge, tone Alan, Years ago when I had my first class from Del he said that he took a small grand, reduced the soundboard area by 30-40% (That's what I recall anyway) reduced the speaking length of the lower bass strings, then actually had a BIGGER sounding piano! The proof was there to play. It just sounded like a "bigger" sized piano. The Ms I've done sound more like Ls, As or Os. But that, I guess, is just my opinion and the opinion of everyone who has heard them. Can't prove a dang thing... (AND DON'T WANT TO ARGUE...<G>) Regards, Jim -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Alan McCoy Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:18 PM To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org> Subject: [CAUT] Bass bridge, string scale, cantilevered bridge, tone Hi Jim and Ron (and others), I do not have enough first-hand experience with especially short-scale instruments that have been recipient of the kind of treatment that the Brodmann thread was about, namely new string scale with a shorter speaking length, longer backlength, no cantilever. But I am curious about what kind of tonal change I might anticipate if I were to rescale, say, a Kawai GE-1. Would anyone be interested in describing what would be the likely tonal result with these changes to this short-scale piano? I know words won't likely do justice to it, but I'd be interested to hear anyway. BTW, this isn't idle curiosity. Thanks. Alan -- Alan McCoy, RPT Eastern Washington University amccoy at mail.ewu.edu 509-359-4627 509-999-9512
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