[CAUT] Shank to Hammer weight spreadsheet

[Chris Solliday]

[CAUT] Shank to Hammer weight spreadsheetMaybe I didn't splain myself too well, as I sort the shanks the second time they are usually well tapered by weight. Usually only a .1g difference from shank to shank. I'm not actually interested in only the least amount of work but rather the best result for voicing (why else are we doing anything??) and I think that a heavy shank with a lite hammer will produce a different sound than a lite shank with a lite hammer. So I match lite with lite and heavy with heavy with a smooth taper of both and feel this results in the best voicing foundation. I'm still working on the relationship of pitch to weight so I don't have hard data yet but....
Chris Solliday 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jon Page 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:52 AM
  Subject: [CAUT] Shank to Hammer weight spreadsheet


    ...Once I'm done with that I simply dry assemble the shanks and hammers and
    then use the Stanwood scale to weigh the SWs.  I chart those and then figure
    out where I have to alter them to achieve a smooth curve...



  I seems you are 'final fitting' your SW irrespective of the shank strike weight (SSW).
  If you initially taper your hammers to a close margin, then you are throwing
  the curve off with jumbled shanks and changing the mass of the hammer due
  to shank irregulatities.


  It would be more advantageous to match similiar SSW groups to your hammers
  which have been mass calibrated, thus reducing alteration. Ultimately, this is
  the most thorough method ineritally speaking.


  I simply mate the SSW with hammer weight to target a curve because does it
  really matter since it is at the end of the compound leverage system.  Are you
  feeling hammer inertia or weight at the front of the key.  Or what degree is it
  important (inertia at the end of the system) ans opposed to good inertial
  effect at the front of the key.
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  Regards,

  Jon Page
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