Thanks Joe for the advice. Yes, Danny at G.C. Piano (string maker) is re-scaling the tenor and treble. I furnished him with the speaking lengths in mm on the left string of all of those unisons. If you wouldn't mind, I have a question which you might be able to help me with. The felt or cloth that was used at the bass hitch pins was 1 3/8" wide and less than 1/8" thick. It was pushed down over all of the hitch pins with the loop and the winding portion of the string laying on the felt. I ordered understring felt for this application and what Schaff sent me was 1/4" thick x 1/2" wide. Should I ignore the application that Starr used with the wide, thin, felt pushed over the hitch pins, and use this 1/4" x 1/2" felt laying on the plate in front of the hitch pins?. Or should I try and get a new thin, wide, felt or cloth to again use here. Hopefully I've described this OK. Thanks Joe. Regards, Gordon Holley On 25 Jul 2002 at 15:32, Joseph Garrett wrote: > Gordon, > What did the piano sound like, before you took the strings off. I.E. was it > a bit wild with unwanted harmonics, etc.? If the answer is yes, then I would > probably add some understringing felt 3/8" to 1/2" wide, no more. If you > don't know the answer, then you can always weave some braid in after, if > the Harmonics thing is a bit much. Some times, if the piano doesn't have > enough "Zing" to it, I will add brass 1/2 round or oval round bars, in the > appropriate places, to "bring it up". This will sometimes aid in better > string rendering between the tuning pin and the speaking length. (Lots of > reasons for doing this.) > I've seen a lot of Small pianos that didn't have anything to stop the > "non-speaking lengths" from sounding. I suspect to "make the piano sound > bigger". <G> > One thing, If you are having the bass/tenor strings "scaled", then you'd be > well advised to scale the rest of the piano, as well. The reason being, > that, #1 Starr pianos are bit suspect in their Quality Control and in their > choice of "scaling", IMHO. How do I know this? I own a 7'10" one. (Nuff said > there!) More often than not I find scales to be pretty screwed up, in the > tenor/treble/upper treble area. Some due to poor bridge making/notching and > some just bad "pirated" scales being used. So, take that few extra hours to > take the speaking lengths and re-calc that treble as well. > Just my thoughts. > Best Regards > Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon) > > Squares Are Grand Too!<G>
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