Greetings:

Thanks to Terry Smythe for uploading my piano string scaling
spreadsheet and accompanying text to Jody's FTP site. I'm pretty
ignorant of the PC world and the procedures for moving files like that
around, so it would probably never have happened if left for me to do.

I first developed that spreadsheet in 1985 using VisiCalc on a
Hewlett-Packard computer. The Excel adaptation was made when I got a
Mac.  I've played with (and modified) *lots* of scales with it since
then, and have used it as the basis for a number of PTG workshops on
scaling and restringing.

At the time I first started with it, there were no other software
programs available to do those calculations. Now there are quite a few,
and some of them will attempt to develop whole bass string sets at the
push of a button. For those of you who don't wish to spend the money
for proprietary software, but would like to play with the numbers, the
spreadsheet is slow but effective. It also includes factors that Dave
Roberts derived that I believe are quite valuable, and which may not
appear in other commercial software packages.

If those of you who may make use of it have any questions about the
spreadsheet or approaches to utilizing it, let me know directly by
email, and I'll try to help.

Cheers

Doug Rhodes
RPT - The Piano Technicians Guild
Victoria, British Columbia
CANADA
<drhodes@islandnet.com>