zing went the strings woops

[John Ross]

A Guide to Restringing, by John Travis has the scale for an HC Bay grand 
ser. #20348.
It may not be the same size, but might be a place to start.
I could send it to you.
John
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: zing went the strings woops


> 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
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