zing went the strings woops

[Farrell]

Measure all the speaking lengths and the bass string diameters (core & 
windings) and have a qualified string scale designer make you a new scale. 
The designer may also have some comments on the existing bass dimensions.

Years ago, with the first piano I restrung, it was delivered to me with no 
strings at all and no string data. David Sanderson developed a nice scale 
for me and made my bass strings. The piano sounded better than it had any 
right to (1920s Estey micro-grand).

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> Today I was given my winters work, a 1921 H C Bay grand.
> A local tech delivered it in pieces, totally dismantled.
> All the parts seem to be there, but the kicker is that there are new bass
> strings from Schaff,
> but no record was made of the plain wire.
> Could one extrapolate the plain wire sizes from the bass
> strings by measuring them and running the string lengths of the unwound
> strings?
> How should I procede?
> Joe Goss RPT