On 1/7/2012 5:03 PM, Joseph Garrett wrote: > Dean, >-- I know that it is their intent to make it > a whole lot more of a piano than what it was originally. Yes, it is. I don't black the plate lettering, nor put a soundboard decal on the pianos I redesign, because neither the plate nor the soundboard are as they were originally built. >The one given, > that is difficult to alter, is the plate. It is the one parameter that we > have to deal with. Once you've ground off the front duplexes, moved the agraffes back to retain the strike ratio through the transition bridge, changed wrapped trichords to bichords, and installed vertical hitches, the plate gets some fairly extensive modification too. But yea, it does present limitations. > Just Evaluating a Scale and making minor corrections that are dictated by > anomolies of the bridges, etc. is merely Scale Improvement to me. > What would you call it?<G>l I call it rescaling. I also call what I do when I'm turning tuning pins for someone "tuning", though I make no claims that it's the best possible, or even a complete tuning. It definitely is a tuning improvement though... Ron N
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