restringing question

[Stephen Airy]

I see.  It's just a matter of personal preference -- I don't like my 
monochords to extend above A13 or my bichords to hit C28.  :)  At the 
lowest I like my bichords to hit G11 or F9 (C4 in a Bosendorfer Imperial -- 
don't know if it's like that) and I like the trichords to extend down to 
C28, B27, or A#26 (some have them down to F21 or lower maybe -- I happen to 
like the tone at A25 and down that you get with wound strings).

At 04:31 PM 11/26/00 -0800, you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Newton Hunt" <nhunt@jagat.com>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: November 26, 2000 12:16 PM
>Subject: Re: restringing question
>
>
> > Don't try reinventing the wheel and some of those old guys
> > KNEW what they were doing.  Don't second guess old
> > craftsmen.
> >
> > Newton
>--------------------------------------------------
>
>With respect, that wasn't my point at all.  I second-guess the old craftsmen
>all the time -- there is much that can be improved with most of these old
>scales.
>
>It's just that in this case there is far too little information available.
>It sounded to me like an arbitrary change was being contemplated without
>sound technical reasoning supporting the change.  In general, mono-chords do
>not extend up far enough with the transition to bi-chords being made
>prematurely.  In this case, they are used to what is probably quite a
>reasonable point -- at least it seems so without knowing more about the
>scale -- and nothing would be gained by making this change.  Quite likely,
>the results would not be as good as the original.
>
>Which is not to say that the original scaling itself is reasonable, just
>that the number of mono-chords seems reasonable for a scale of this type and
>probable size.
>
>Del


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