Hi Phil, Some pianos will only have the back scale over tones show up, under it's own particular circumstances. Older Yamaha CF's often have a distinct A5 sound as if it has a damper problem, when it's played hard. Extend the braid felt an extra 3 notes and wow it's gone. I've cleaned up a lot of vertical pianos by braiding the bass and tenor sections. But as Jim has said, It's a piano by piano thing. Baldwin Hamilton's of the older vintage, come to mind as being improvable. Re: Bass back scale. The piano maker will see how little they need and then make the Judgement Call. Regards Roger At 07:55 AM 5/28/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Good Morning to all. > >I recently completed my 3rd re-string of my brief career..2 Baldwin Grands >and a newer Wurlitzer Grand that had pre-maturely rusted. > >This last re-string has further convinced me of my conviction of the >following: > >Stringing Braid is not necessarily necessary. > >There was alot of stringing braid that came off of this >Baldwin(#17907..circa 1911)..the bass bridge wire was braided, and the low >tenor to about A4 was braided. That's over 1/2 of the instrument being >braided. > >Why? > >Is there some musical significance to stringing braid? If there is, I'm not >hearing it. > >I am of the belief that a wire on a piano should be allowed to speak freely >without any restrictions. The piano is the only stringed instrument that I >can think of that uses a dampening agent(?) on its waste area for the >purpose of........... > >That's my question: What is the purpose of stringing braid? If its purpose >is to dampen overtones, aren't the overtones necessary in the production of >sound? If the purpose of stringing braid is to 'pretty up' the piano, then >I'm guilty of not wanting to pretty it up in that fashion, because I'm not >hearing anything that requires it to be 'prettier'. > >I'm looking forward to the responses. > >-Phil Bondi (Fl.) >phil@philbondi.com > > > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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