string length possible in given cabinet size?

[Ron Nossaman]

>> How did you arrive at these numbers? 
>> 
>total guessing.


Stephen,
I can assure you you aren't going to design, much less build a piano by
guessing on this list. There are thousands of things you will need to know
to even begin to make intelligent and informed decisions. Learn to tune and
service pianos. This will get you both a source of income, and exposure to
a lot of different approaches to the design details of existing
instruments. Join a local PTG chapter. This will get you access to other
professional piano technicians who can be quite helpful to someone
indicating they are willing to work for their education. Attend seminars
and conventions. Study, work, learn, think. Repeat continually for as long
as you live. This is not the sort of thing you absorb by skimming the
surface and making wild assumptions about the other 99.9% of what needs to
be dealt with. You have a lot of very difficult and expensive work and
research ahead of you if you intend to pursue this, and you don't seem to
have started yet. It has been suggested to you that you invest in some of
the PTG supplied educational material covering, among other things,
scaling, to get some basic education so you'll have some idea of what
you're talking about. You apparently haven't done this yet. Please do, and
at least try to learn something about what you're so eager to speculate on.
You've got the enthusiasm, which is an outstanding first step, but the time
has come to invest the sweat and blood and actually get started. Trust me,
you don't even know the questions yet.

 
Ron N