Bill, Others, Concerning wound trichords; 1. Scott Jones "String Couplers" work beautifully to mask this flaw in the piano. Put one on two strings. This makes an incredible, immediate improvement 2. Some will say that wound trichords always reveal a scale/design problem. I think it does, nearly all of the time. 3. In the UST7 if you replace the last two plain wire notes with wound trichords (requires new hitch) the break disappears. (Skelton/Canada. It works!) 4. There's probably 40 things that people have found over the years to improve a D. Ron just does it! (Why doesn't the factory?) Jim Busby BYU From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of maxpiano Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:54 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Nossman Rebuilds. "One of my favorite features is the elimination of the tri-chords in the bass." Not to belittle Ron, but Charles M. Stieff hit upon this idea in 1895! A church in Simpsonville, SC has Stieff concert grand #12,753 (1895 according to Pierce). No sign of ever being rebuilt. The plate is bored for trichord unisons in the bass but only two holes bored in the pin block; and the bridge is pinned for two-string unisons. One more proof that great minds run in the same direction, even if a century in between! Bill Maxim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090310/de617ef9/attachment-0001.html>
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