The Calculating Technician
By Douglas K. Rhodes
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>
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