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<DIV><STRONG><EM> J.D</EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM> How do we rectify in our thinking & scaling
the 9 wrapped tenor notes on the long bridge of an Baldwin SF
10. This is a piano similar in length to the S&S B. To my ear it
only needs 5 unisons wrapped. I just came away from a nice one built in 1987
& it's a good sounding scale /piano. What am I missing?</EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM> Dale</EM></STRONG></DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>At 9:28
am +0200 2/4/07, Aras wrote:<BR><BR>>This scale was made on demand from a
customer who wanted a more <BR>>powerful bass which they surely got. It was
made for more than 10 <BR>>years ago and not even hard playing pianists
have broken any <BR>>strings. It was an example to show the move of the
bass/tenor <BR>>"breake". Please behave JD, you have no reasons for your
ironic <BR>>arrogant comments.<BR><BR>On the contrary I have every reason,
and there is nothing arrogant <BR>about my comments. Let others
calculate the tension of that scale <BR>and see who they think has the more
reason. The lengths for the 20 <BR>notes on the bass bridge are printed
below. When I see a bass scale <BR>that requires the wire for the
greater part of the scale to operate <BR>at over 80% of the actual breaking
strain, as high as 86% for one <BR>note, I know I'm looking at a recipe for
disaster. I am at present <BR>being asked to replace, one by one as they
break, the original <BR>singles on a 7' Bšsendorfer that is played for 6 - 8
hours per day by <BR>a young concert pianist and has strings under less strain
than yours <BR>but much too tight. The tuner is sure he is going to
break more and <BR>so am I with over 20 years of string-making experience and
plenty of <BR>mistakes well behind me.<BR><BR>mm : 151.2, 149.5, 147.8, 146.0,
144.3, 142.0, 139.6, 137.3, 134.9, <BR>132.2, 129.5, 126.7, 124.0, 121.2,
118.3, 115.5, 112.6, 109.7, 106.8, <BR>103.9<BR><BR>JD</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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