At 12:22 PM 12/5/2002 -0500, you wrote: > jonpage@attbi.com writes: > > >Has anyone reduced the shank length 3mm on a S&S to about 126mm > >and relocated the stack further back 3mm? > >No, I've never done that. >What is the reasoning for this? It seems that you would need a 2" hammer >blow to use that much leverage and the hammer tails just might be hitting the >ends of the whippens. (sounds like the doorway to a nightmare,but let us >know what happens.....) > >Ed Foote RPT Plenty of room for the tails in regards to the wippens. Upon further thought I abandoned this musing. Regards, Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@attbi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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