[pianotech] string scale

[Joseph Garrett]

> [Original Message]
> From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
> To: <joegarrett at earthlink.net>; <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Date: 1/8/2012 6:28:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] string scale
>
> 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.
>
That would be my approach with such an endeavor.<G>
>
> >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.

Since I have never done any of  those items, I'll take your word that it's
all possible.<G>
>
>
> > 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...

Well, I guess. sigh....<G>
> Ron N