<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Alan,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Let me second what Terry said: if it's worth re-stringing, it's worth re-scaling, or at least evaluating the scale.  FWIW, it's not uncommon for the wire size to change several times in the lowest 6 notes of the tenor, depending on the severity of the reverse curve of the bridge.  There's no way to "guess" the best wire size, you gots to do the calculations.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mike</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=tune4u@earthlink.net href="mailto:tune4u@earthlink.net">Alan</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 10/20/2003 12:45:48 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Help: Working for Scale</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV><SPAN class=937003717-20102003><FONT face=Arial>Need a scale expert's opinion, please.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=937003717-20102003><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=937003717-20102003><FONT face=Arial>Restringing a 1903 Haines Bros. beauty. Customer decided to "help" by removing some of the plain-wire strings over the weekend. She also started to clean off the string size notations I had marked (very neatly) on the plate. Fortunately she realized they might be important and stopped this little game.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=937003717-20102003><FONT face=Arial>I can reconstruct the scale remaining marks and my notes for all but the lowest six notes. Starting at the 7th note, the wire size is 19. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=937003717-20102003><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=937003717-20102003><FONT face=Arial>Can I assume the unknowns are probably 20's? Shall I just stick some 20-wire in there, see if I can pull it to pitch, and see if the resulting sting tension and sound  is reasonable?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=937003717-20102003><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=937003717-20102003><FONT face=Arial>Anyone out there have a Haines of the period?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=937003717-20102003><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan R. Barnard</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Salem, MO</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT><BR> <P><FONT size=2>---<BR>Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.<BR>Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).<BR>Version: 6.0.525 / Virus Database: 322 - Release Date: 10/9/2003<BR></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>