Les, Is this, by any chance, one of the 43xx or 44xx series uprights? Actually, the mid-60s Wurlitzer studios are harder to tune. Personally, I find tuning most uprights like trying to nail Jello to a wall. (Actually, the question is serious - those series instruments had, among other issues, a higher tension scale.) Best. Horace >Not known as a string breaker, I tuned a Kimball today and yet another >string broke. When I began making preparations to splice it, I could >actually see the wire had elongated where it went around the pin at the >top, and thus no splicing. Does it have to do with "high tension >scales"? Am I the only one in the world who finds Kimballs hate >me???????????????????/ > >Information on just what constitutes a high tension scale, why such were >made in the first place, and are they still used would also be >appreciated. > >Thanks in advance, > > >Leslie Bartlett Horace Greeley hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu LiNCS voice: 415/725-4627 Stanford University fax: 415/725-9942
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