<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>  Avery</DIV> <DIV>  This looks like a metric scale & if strung with american wire will result in very high tension especially in the top end...snap.  also it will dramtically change the sonority of the Kawai/ Yamah sound.  AMHIK.  It would be interesting to compare all the sizes by measurement & next time I have oppurtunity, I shall.  SO, if some are & some aren't the same size then we all need to be measuring the scales before stringing regard less of what the no posted on the bridge indicate.  Right?</DIV> <DIV>  Dale</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Dale, <BR><BR>Which measurement are we talking about here. 14 American or 14 Metric? <BR><BR>Since the chart I posted earlier for the 500 was from Kawai, I figured they're talking Metric. <BR>If one is trying to restring a "Metric" piano with American wire, then this "might" be the case. <BR>Although I still believe that a class Don Manino gave here in Houston years ago, said that <BR>Kawai had done some comparisons and some sizes were the same and some weren't. <BR><BR>Where's Don M. when one needs him?! :-D<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">14  - 6<BR>14½ - 8<BR>15  - 4<BR>15½ - 6<BR>16  - 6<BR>16½ - 6<BR>17  - 6<BR>17½ - 6<BR>18  - 6<BR>18½ - 6<BR>19  - 2</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>