<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=937473221-31102006><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Interesting piano, Terry. Some years ago I completely redesigned one of these pianos for Steve Ganz, a rebuilder in Portland, Oregon. It got everything: cutoff bar, fish, soundboard & rib design, floating bass, new bass scale, etc. The only thing it did not get was a new tenor/treble scale. As you say, no hook. This is the ONLY scale I've ever measured that I did not change in any way. (I did clean up the bass scale, but didn't touch the plain wire scale at all.)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=937473221-31102006><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=937473221-31102006><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>When the piano was finished I gave an all-day seminar on the piano to the Oregon technicians. The seminar was held at a large piano store in Portland so we were surrounded by much larger new pianos. Still, the little Monarch more than held its own. It was a beautiful sounding piano regardless of its size. Gave lie to the argument that small pianos can't be musical.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=937473221-31102006><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=937473221-31102006><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Del</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Farrell<BR><B>Sent:</B> October 31, 2006 1:02 PM<BR><B>To:</B> pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Baldwin Monarch Micro-Grand<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Today I tuned a Baldwin Monarch Micro-Grand. Clearly an economy grade piano. I couldn't find a serial number, but the piano has been refinished and restrung (plus keytops, painted-black ebony sharps (yuk!) and hammers) and some years ago - so I presume the piano is from sometime between the 1920s and 1950s (more likely closer to the former). My question concerns the string scale. It has a large bass section (F3 is the highest bass note - so what, 33 notes?) and the long bridge has zero hockey stick. Apparently someone a long time ago tried to design a string scale for a small piano that approached some sort of logarithmic progression, omitted the low tension shortened low tenor notes, and didn't worry about putting a long bass bridge on the piano.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So why did this approach nearly vanish way back then? Why DID folks get going with the hockey-stick long bridge ends? Clearly, designers of small pianos way back then had two paths to follow. Why did most go for the hockey-stick?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell<BR>Farrell Piano</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.farrellpiano.com">www.farrellpiano.com</A><BR><A href="mailto:terry@farrellpiano.com">terry@farrellpiano.com</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BTW - Don't you just love sustain-shortened killer octave areas? I was doing some measurements with my Verituner and found that on some notes I could have a unison up to about 8 cents off and you would barely hear the start of a beat! Talk about some mighty easy/fast tuning! Add the false beats into the mix and those dead scale areas can actually be an asset for some pianos!</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>