Book re: restringing: "A Guide to Re-stringing" by Travis, John W. 508 p. with illustrations. dynix#526463 dewey dec. # 786.23 It has selected scales for several pianos. There are also many older books with scads piano scales listed amd probably most providers of new strings would have those books. ...

•Larry Mayo was looking for stringing scale etc for the Monarch player. I restrung a 1925 Monarch and the notes I have show the pin height at 26/32" (13/16"), the pressure bar at 7/32", and strings per notes as follows: size 13: 12 notes, size 14: 10 notes, size 15: 13 notes, size 16: 8 notes, size ...

•I have been using Mapes strings (tel. 1-423-543-3195) for restringing low and medium quality pianos in most cases. I have been using strings from GC Piano Co. (tel. 1-416-755-6789) in Ontario, Canada, for higher quality pianos. I find the tone of Mapes is good, but I want more richness and brillian...

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 tha...

•It's about time I started a musical box string, so here goes. I have just acquired an empty case for a music box. It was a key-wound box and has a nice engraved brass tune sheet listing the 4 tunes and has the name Francois Nicole. There are no numbers on the brass, but on the base of the box are t...

•John, Set one string in a unison 'flat ' and the one in the next unison 'sharp'. By alternating this up the scale the overall tension will not change causing further distortion of the plate and board. Make it dissonant to the degree that the customer wants to hear. In the future, the answer is to s...

•One area not receiving much mention in this current string on tracking systems is the precision or lack of same that the tracking system positions the roll during reroll. I've noticed on at least one old Ampico upright and on Ampico B's that there's provision for the tracking system to center the r...

•Remember that piano that tunes itself by heating each string whenever you play it? I just thought about it and wondered how it's doing on the market. Mark Kinsler Lancaster, Ohio, USA http://www.mkinsler.com/

•I would imagine that one of the three strings is detuned somewhere around 10 cents sharp or 10 cents flat. You only have to have one string detuned and the other two to be 'on pitch'. Having two strings out of tune would not sound nice, as you have to have some reference point. On an accordion, whe...

•I have never seen anyone using the pin/string setting technique that I am about to describe used by anyone other than one person who tuned my piano. I have copied his method and find that it works very well. In addition to playing the key for the shard being tuned very hard while operating the tuni...

•One shouldn't have to pound the key to set the string. The idea is to set the tuning pin so the pitch is _very_ close before using the "hard" test blow. If the pitch is flat of where you want it then tune it a tiny bit sharp of where you want it. Apply counter clockwise pressure to the tuning pin (...

•I seek the MIDI scale for the 5-string automatic banjo built by Ragtime Automated Music ("Ragtimewest"). Thank you for your help, Michel Trémouille michel.tremouille59@gmail.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply] [ At https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv33IpqmXvU is a view of [ Michel's music s...

•Greetings friends, After re-stringing our Cremona nickelodeon I was digging through some old rolls to see how they sounded. One of our favorite old original rolls is Columbia "A" roll #1672, the "Bohemian Roll". We have been asked on several occasions to get this roll re-cut, which we may yet get t...

•The Oxford Companion to Music describes a hurdy-gurdy thus: "A stringed instrument, somewhat of the violin type, played by turning with the right hand, a handle which operates a rosined wheel (in effect a circular bow), and by depressing with the left hand a few finger-keys like those of a piano. T...

•> I was astounded to hear that although the strings were fine, the > restoration to make it play again was over $2000. Restoration > of the cabinet was $1,100 extra and electrifying another $600. Boy, the questions aren't easy today! What is the cost to restore a player piano? Is it worth it? You c...

•I would think that few museums would accept donations with strings attached, especially permitting the possibility of lawsuits should they decide to sell items. Philip Jamison

•For those of you who have to clean under the strings of a grand, here is a tip. Take a kitchen Scotch type scratchy pad, rubber cement it to an 1/8-inch thick board cut so that it is 1/4-inch smaller all around than the pad (to avoid scratching the finish with the edge of the wood). Make small inde...

•I have come across a commercial recording titled "Festival of Strings", recorded at the Speelklock Museum in Utrecht, but I have no list of the contents. Could anyone please scan me a list of the instruments and tunes that are played on it please or let me know if I can find this on a website somew...

Doug Rhodes asked about the question of partials and their positions along a string. Such a phenomenon doesn't have to be seen (although it has been). Let me put it this way, Doug: A large, heavy string is able to vibrate at many different frequencies, all at once. The only way this can happen is if...

•I want to thank Jim Heyworth for his in-depth comments about this string. His comment about the difficulty of identification arising from the specific arrangement of the tune is well taken. One of the things that I have found that works very well for me (using the "Up-Down" book) is playing a music...