1 string, 2 strings, 3 strings or more

[Stephen Airy]

> > ...since the only ways to avoid this are a) to
> shift notes
> > onto the bass bridge, which would cause even worse
> problems
> 
> Why do you say this. I designed the Walter 190 grand
> with a 27 note bass
> section. When properly built the bass/tenor
> transition is essentially
> transparant. Our own 122 vertical piano has a 32
> note bass section and
> several roomfulls of piano technicians could not
> reliably pick out the
> bass/tenor transition.
> 
> 
Interesting -- My 1913 Ricca 56" upright has a 27-note
bass.  What's the stringing arrangement in the Walter
190 like? (single/double/triple-string notes,
wrapped/plain, string length at each end of the
bridges (or at least A1 string length)?
> 
> >
> > or b) to
> > provide a transition bridge as you say, which  has
> not been considered
> > desirable for over 100 years -- and that gives
> this solution  a pretty
> good
> > seal of obsoletion, even if it's a good solution,
> which I don't
> > doubt.
> 
> Well, an idea can be done well or it can be done
> poorly. All of the early
> transition bridge designs I've seen--and that is
> certainly not all of them
> by any means--shorten the strings way to much. And
> many of them, if not
> most, transition to tri-chord wrapped
> strings--something I will never
> willing do.
> 
> 


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