With a thin tape as is provided by various string makers (JD Grandt, Sanderson, Areledge) you can get the tape between or under the dampers (if you lift them with the pedal) and they have something to hook around the hitch that will give you an accurate measure even with the strings on. As far as a minimum length for rescaling, often the shorter pianos will benefit the most from a reexamination of the scale. That's not to say that longer pianos don't also benefit. Recently I rescaled a Steinway D bass section to convert the trichords to bichords and in the process try to smooth the tenor bass transition and increase the fundamental strength in the monochords with good succes. Things can be improved on many pianos. I don't order a set of bass strings without examining the scaling nor restring the plain wire section without looking at that as well. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com 415 661 3666 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Lanthier (Piano Lanco)" <info at pianolanco.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2008 1:51:58 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [pianotech] Measuring Bass String Lengths Hi, What method do you guys recommend for measuring the length of bass strings in a grand (while still in the piano) in order to have a new set made? Not with a paper pattern. I've used a measuring tape and a piece of string around the hitch pin which I marked and then re-measured afterwards. . .. Also, any rule-of-thumb as to the minimum grand piano size that would benefit from a computerized rescaling? thanks PIANO LANCO Marc Lanthier 514-770-7438 1-877-PIANO10 info at pianolanco.com www.pianolanco.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081110/29679879/attachment.html
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