<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am just restoring an old, very nice = and very good, J SIMON an German piano made in Stutgart and this upright has 1, = 54 m of bass string to A0.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It has 16 single and 12 double. The = last double, C3, it has 1.03 m. The bass strings thay are original but they = can't to be tunned on 440. They break ! I think that the steel wire is = thin.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I need to rescale the bass in order to = tune the piano in 440 cps.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What is the better way? There are any = software to do it?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rogerio Cunha<BR>IC Member of The Piano = Technicians Guild<BR>Rio de Janeiro - Brasil<BR><A href="http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/dacapo/">http://planeta.terra.co= m.br/arte/dacapo/</A><BR><A href="http://www.perfectpitch.hpg.ig.com.br/index.html">http://www.perf= ectpitch.hpg.ig.com.br/index.html</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>