How "bad" is "bad"? I assiduously scrubbed a really
flat set of knuckels recently, with brass bristle
brush ( say that fast ) and naptha. They came out
"like new"
Thump
--- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
wrote:
>
>
> Alltypetune@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I picked up on this discussion late.
> >
> > If the knuckles are bad, under what condition do
> you consider it best, in the
> > interest of time, to just replace the knuckles in
> lieu of new shanks and
> > flanges.
> >
> > Ron May
> >
>
> Depends on a few things I suppose. New shanks cost
> money and need a bit of
> fitting to the instrument, implies a hammer change
> in anycase. Knuckles
> themselves get replaced easily enough. You can pop
> off an old set and get a new
> set installed very nicely in a couple hours. If you
> have a set of poorly
> installed knuckles and hammers and shanks are
> otherwise reasonably ok.... In
> anycase i choose that over bolstering for the most
> part now.
>
>
> --
> 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
>
>
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