scaling question

[Allan L. Gilreath, RPT]

Gosh Newton, if I didn't know you better I might have assumed you were
calling me ignorant for asking the question or telling me to find someone
reasonably intelligent to rescale it for me.  This is actually turning into
a pretty interesting line of inquiry.  If anyone is interested, I'll be glad
to share my results from research and experimentation when I finish
rescaling and restringing this one.

I keep telling folks in our chapter (especially the quiet ones) to speak up
since the only stupid question is the one that isn't asked.  However, when
the same question is asked multiple times it does get a little old. (That's
why I checked the archives without finding anything before asking.)

In short, this seems to have been an attempt to control longitudinal
vibration in the speaking length, but more on that later.

Also an apology, I accidentally threw in the word "rational" without the
final "e" in my first post.  Too much proofreading has made me aware of what
we leave for posterity!

Allan
Allan L. Gilreath, RPT
Assistant Director - TEAM2001
July 11-15, 2001 - Reno, NV
agilreath@mindspring.com
http://www.ptg.org/conv.htm
Director: Laura Olsen, RPT
Assistant Directors: Allan Gilreath, RPT - Gary Neie, RPT - Dale Probst, RPT

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
Of Newton Hunt
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 2:11 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: scaling question


This is not a "scaling question" but a question of ignorance.

Rescue or have someone reasonably intelligent rescale the piano.

		Newton

"Allan L. Gilreath, RPT" wrote:
>
> List,
>
> Does anyone know the rational for decreasing both the wrapped and core
> diameters for a the lowest two bass strung in a scale (relative to the
> strings above that)?
>
> I was taking measurements the other day on a 5'8" grand and found this
> situation.  I checked another of the same model while tuning and found
> the
> same thing.  When I stopped in at Schaff last week we checked the
> scale
> stick and found the same thing.  In short, this is part of the design
> and no
> just an error made by the string maker.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Allan
> Allan L. Gilreath
> agilreath@mindspring.com



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