bass string problem

[Michael Spalding]

Hi Les,

I use PScale, which has a decent tutorial on scale design, although its kind of cook-book.  Good recipes, but not very much about how the recipes were developed.  As the author Tremaine Parsons says in the manual:  " the scope of this program is not to teach the user how to scale or re-scale any given piano but to serve as a tool in the study of possible modifications."

For more in-depth info, go back to the Journal series "The Calculating Technician" .  (by Dave roberts??)

Mike 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Leslie Bartlett 
To: Pianotech List
Sent: 9/23/2006 7:45:55 AM 
Subject: RE: bass string problem



Before you get a new string made, it would be worth having a look at the original design on a scaling spreadsheet. Post up the speaking length, cover diameter and the note number on the piano. We can look at the tension to see if it is getting up near critical levels. Quite a few of us on the list have spreadsheets in which we can drop the numbers to see what is going on.

                Well quite a few.......... of you know some stuff about scaling.  I am really ignorant.   Will a scaling program also provide some information about "how to think" about scales, what and why they are, so that persons with no experience can understand something about the whole thing?   I'd like to know enough not to be stupid, but haven't a clue about how one goes to learning such things. If there are scaling programs which help along that way, I'd sure like to know about them.  thanks. les bartlett


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