Well, yes, there are always those practical considerations getting in the way. One does wonder, though, why it was scaled that way to begin with. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA del at fandrichpiano.com ddfandrich at gmail.com Phone 360.736.7563 -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 6:51 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Lacquered hammers On 2/20/2011 7:33 PM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > Mine shows it a little lower but still higher than I'd consider safe. > > Considered switching from a wrapped bi-chord to a plain steel tri-chord? > According to my spreadsheet this might actually work better. F#-3 > (note 34, > right?) with a length of 865 mm and plain wire of 0.041" to 0.043" > diameter looks acceptable depending, of course, on what is above and below. > > ddf Yes, that would have been nice, if not for the 3 or 4 wrapped bichords above it, tuning pin and hitch count and placement. Unfortunately, fixing it isn't in the cards, just minimal tuning recovery. Ron N
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