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<div>At 07:25 -0600 6/2/08, Mike Spalding wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>...Further, their wire diameter
selections in the low bass can be improved upon. If you still
want scale data from the original strings, I can send it to you, but
you'll get better sound by providing precise length measurements to a
stringmaker and having him/her calculate diameters.</blockquote>
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<div>Quite so! I have made many sets of strings for the
miniature and not once copied the original scale, which takes the
tension far too high most of the way through the bichords -- for
example note 26 has a 0.55 cover on a 15.5 core, giving 84% of UTS,
where we set 70% as the limit. I have all the details for the
original factory scale and it is not impressive. In fact very
few of Steinway's bass scales are acceptable.</div>
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<div>One thing I would advise against for the Miniature is the use of
any double-covered strings to replace the low single-covered strings.
I have done various experiments expecting to improve the quality of
the tone in these strings, but the structure of the piano seems to
respond best to single-covered strings similar to the original scale,
which are able to shake the piano in a rather unusual way.</div>
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<div>For what it's worth, here is the scale we use:</div>
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<div align="center">JD</div>
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