At 17:40 -0500 16/2/10, Ed Foote wrote:
>>Does anyone have agraffe to strike dimensions for note #1 on a
>>Steinway C and an 85 note A (both around 1890)?
>
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>The A should be close to 152 mm. But these things vary on handbuilt pianos.
How do you arrive at that figure, Ed? The speaking length of A-1 on
the model C is roughly 1624 mm. 1/8 of that is 203 mm; 1/9 is 180
mm. Not having a C to hand, I have no way of giving an authoritative
answer to the question but 152 mm seems unlikely.
If you measure from the front of the front rail to a point 3.5 mm
into the speaking length of note A-85 and then measure that distance
at a right angle from the rail to a point on string A-1, that should
touch the strike line, I think.
JD
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