<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#b8b8b8> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greetings All!  I am in the early = stages of restringing a 5'3 Kohler and Chase grand which has a strange = scale.  Upon measuring the gauge of the strings, I was surprised to find that the = piano has .036 wire from notes 55 through 76.  This seems like an unusually = long use of the same gauge of wire, in fact so unusual that I went back and = doublechecked the wire, with the same results.  Should I keep the same scale, = or at least go down to 035 wire in the middle of this section to have a = smoother transtion into the upper treble?  Thanks, Patrick Poulson, RPT</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>