Good afternoon Owen,

Firstly, thank you for patience and thoughtfulness in plunging through my
mistakes and misunderstandings to see where we need to focus.  Thank you
also for the sharing of your experience and knowledge coupled with
suggestions on a number of issues.

I will press your thoughts into action and see where we go!

Best from the Paradise of Washington county, NY

Sandy

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Owen Daly Harpsichords <
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> Hi Sandy:
>
> Yes, the Korg will use the modern piano notation. I’ve been forced to
> learn it recently because PitchLab, which I love in every other respect,
> insists on keeping it. Nearly all of us in the harpsichord community,
> however, use the “Helmoltz” notation, and you can quickly become
> comfortable with it.
>
> Starting in the middle, middle c is written <c’> (c-prime).
>
> If your virginals had a four octave chromatic compass, it would go like
> this:
>
> Low C = C
> Tenor c = c (unadorned lower-case, or sometimes with a zero superscript)
> Middle c  = c’
> Nextc = c’'
> Top c = c’’'
>
> And yes, you measured in cm.
>
> If the bass jumps from .40 mm or thereabouts in various places in that
> bottom octave (a bit on the light side, but do-able) to .23mm, which is
> about right for the VERY top of the range, it sounds, not to put too fine a
> point upon it, that nobody in the responsible firm paid the slightest
> attention to the highly inexpert work of the apprentice, or that nobody in
> the place knew what they were doing.
>
> What you need to do is a couple of things, and someone in our group with a
> lot of experience with Italian virginals can tell you how to proceed. (Do
> you have a stringing list from the original repair sessions? You should.)
>
> You need to state the compass of the instrument. (Hint: a “normal” real
> historical Italian virginals will have had one of two likely compasses,
> either C/E-c’’’ (45 notes) or C/E-f’’’ (50 notes). Yours might be 4 octaves
> chromatic.
>
> The sounding lengths from bridge to bridge for at least all the c’s and
> f’s (the ones that fall in the cracks between will fall into a fairly
> straightforward spline curve, I imagine). Mms or Cms are fine, but should
> be specified appropriately.
>
> Probably your lowest note will want to hover around #2 (≈.46mm./.0918”)
> and things will probably want to end at the very tippy top at something
> like #9 (≈=.23mm/.009”. Or #10 (≈.21mm/.008”). ISH. with a smooth
> transition curve from one to the other.
>
> Hoping this doesn’t muddy the waters even further. Perhaps it’s not the
> fault of the apprentice; perhaps someone replaced a string near the
> brass-iron crossover, where you’re most likely to have strings break, and
> just grabbed a completely inappropriate diameter for the task.
>
> Owen
>
>
>
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