[John Ross]

Ok, I'll bite. What was the point of this question??
Regards,
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
piano.tech@ns.sympatico.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Airy" <stephen_airy@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: 


> OK here it is:
> 
> It's my 1913 Ricca & Son upright.
> 
> The break is at B27/C28 with the lowest trichord plain
> note being C28.
> 
> --- Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stephen Airy" <stephen_airy@yahoo.com>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: August 11, 2001 3:00 PM
> > Subject: Re:
> > 
> > 
> > > I was thinking based on A. where the break SHOULD
> > be,
> > 
> > A:  You've still not provided enough information to
> > give a reasonable and
> > considered answer. Such an answer is probably well
> > beyond the scope of
> > anything that is going to be answered on pianotech
> > anyway. At least it's
> > well anything I'm going to try to answer here.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > or B, based on where the break currently is on
> > similar
> > > pianos (Baldwin L, 6'1" Yamaha for example) made
> > > within the last 5 years.
> > 
> > B:  Typically the bass/tenor break is somewhere
> > around E-20/F-21 though
> > nowadays some manufacturers are trying to patch poor
> > initial scaling by
> > running some wrapped bi-chords up into the tenor
> > section.
> > 
> Most bass/tenor breaks I've seen on 6' grands are
> around A#26/B27 -- I see E20/F21 on 7' and larger
> usually.  My mom's PG-150 YC has it at A#26/B27 with
> wrapped bichords running up to F#34.
> 
> > The fact that these pianos may have been made in the
> > past five years is
> > meaningless. Most of the initial scale design work
> > the "modern" piano is
> > based on was done decades or centuries ago.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > I will soon be replying and
> > > telling where it is on the piano I'm talking
> > about.
> > 
> > Good. Let's try doing this sooner rather than later.
> > 
> > Del
> > -----------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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