Hi Chris,

Ah yes, the Hubbard scaling problem. One way we deal with that is to lower
the pitch to A 392. But I acknowledge that may not be workable for all
situations. Other than that, you could string the overly long treble in a
modern wire such as Roslau. Not ideal., but compromises will have to be
made. Cognoscenti will squirm about Roslau, but the average listener won't
notice.

Andrew


On 24 March 2017 at 07:30, Chris Vandekerkhove <
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> Dear members,
>
> I have to restring a Hubbard harpsichord which has a very long scale. I
> already had some discussion with other people and it seems that in the
> treble I'll get in trouble using the more authentic wires available. Are
> there any reasonable alternative wires for stringing the treble? FYI, here
> are the sounding lengths in millimeter of the longest 8', pitch is a1 = 415
> Hz:
>
>
>

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