[CAUT] Shank to Hammer weight spreadsheet

[Ed Sutton]

For accuracy, let me quote the book (Grand Obsession): "The shanks are out 
of order-- the pitch of one is too high for the treble section."
ES

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "Ed Sutton" <ed440 at mindspring.com>; "College and University Technicians" 
<caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Shank to Hammer weight spreadsheet


>
>> Meanwhile, I just read that in the Grotrian factory they sort to put the 
>> low-pitched shanks at the top. Better for the tone that way. It was in 
>> print, so it must be true.
>>  Ed Sutton
>
> Unassailable, really, except for one thing. I'm told you should taste the 
> shanks, with the sweetest going to the treble. Intuitively, that's just 
> gotta be right to avoid those sour notes. But then I wonder about what to 
> do with a sweet shank that goes "tink", as apposed to one that goes 
> "tock", or "tunk". Which takes priority, the taste, or the tock? Tock, I 
> hear, is cheap, so I wonder how valuable an indicator it truly is. It 
> seems a shame to risk compromising the optimum tonal potential on a matter 
> of taste, but I'm not sure just what to tink here, so I ask.
>
> And shouldn't flange pinning factor in here somewhere too, or is that just 
> a matter of taste as well?
>
> Ever amazed,
> Ron N