Dear list, A thought occurred to me concerning the practice of rescaling. I know the first reason to do so is that we are improving the piano. Admittidly, the early designers didn't have access to the tools we have now and would have used them if they had. I can't help comparing this to genetic engineering. Are we possibly changing the nature of the instrument that two hundred years of evolution has brought us to? Could it be that a certain amount of inharmonicity is part of the charm of the piano? I'll admit that a Kimball spinet doesn't have a lot of charm and a lot of the other. I haven't seen this slant brought up before. I hope it generates some opinions. Regards, Bob Sadowski RPT Erie, PA
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