Well, that certainly clarifies things...now we can call octopi hexopi. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eric Wolfley Head Piano Technician Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: Richard Brekne [mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 5:00 AM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: Octagonal Shanks Maybe.... just maybe... this "hex" term is some odd spinoff from computer jargon. Hex then has never meant hexigonal, but hexidecimal, or double octogonal.... which of course no shank is... but very loosely applied puter jargon often finds oct and hex intermixed and jumbled under the term hex... and while all p-nerds understand hex to mean a 16 based number systems, its easy to see oct as a subset... and both are kind of expanded or glorified binaries at least in one sense. So... hex...(not hexigonal) sort of means... eight !!... sort of :) Cheers RicB "Wolfley, Eric (wolfleel)" wrote: > > Jim, > > After extensive empirical research I have determined that the shanks Renner > and others sell are indeed octagonal, so your research has now been > duplicated. A square with the corners cut off. I think hex rolls off the > tongue better than oct and sounds more sexy or something. Its hard to stop > being wrong sometimes. > > -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html _______________________________________________ caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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