Unfortunately, I think it's more complicated than that. Since all scales are a combination of interactions with soundboard design (at least), it's possible that scales have been rejected because they didn't have the requisite, accompanying soundboard design. Sometimes you choose the lesser of two evils--unless you find a way that you don't have to! David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com From: "John Delacour" SNIP > If a scale is proposed that > bears not the slightest resemblance to the scale of any surviving > piano in 150 years of piano-making history, it is not that such a > scale has never been tried by any maker during all those years and > hundreds of thousands of pianos produced. It is because such a thing > has been universally rejected. > > JD
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