Did you try several other strings for the very low number? Up a note, down a note? etc? If you get a different reading you can then store it back in the "C" location. I had asked Sandersons about this at the California Convention. I had read a negative number on the F value. Rich Snelson pianolover 88 wrote: > > Setting up to tune a very old "Broadwood" grand over the weekend. Partially > rebuilt with new pinblock, pins and strings. However, I have a strong > suspicion that the scaling was pretty poor. After muting the piano as usual, > i attempted to take the standard FAC measurments, (twice to make sure) but > found the following numbers: 12, 2.4, 1.6! We obviously know that high > numbers such as 23 for the F reading, followed by, for instance 8 and 12 > would indicate a poorly scaled piano...but what about excessively LOW > numbers? > > Terry Peterson > Precision Piano Service > Torrance, CA > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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