It sounds quite logical to me, and i think I know someone who could do it, and reasonably. I don't have such skills, sad to say. Thanks for this.les Richard Brekne wrote: > I've heard it suggested that the highest 5-6 notes can be re-capped > and the scale fudged enough so as to work acceptably with shortened > lengths. Haven't tried it but have looked at scales enough to think > this might be an acceptable fix. Not too much work involved really. > > RicB > > > I've measured the speaking length of C-88 on many of these pianos. > It varies > quite a bit from one piano to the next but I've found them as long > as 63 mm. > Using 0.030" (#12 1/2) wire this gives a string tension of > approximately 223 lbs > (101 kgf) which is about 80% of the breaking strength of most music > wire. > > snip... > > This is, at best, a patch. What you (or somebody) really needs to do > is recap > the bridge and reduce the speaking length to something a bit more > reasonable. > > Del > Delwin D Fandrich > > >
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