List, Just thought I would add a little more to this shank brew. I attended an all day seminar back in June with David Stanwood presenting. He recommended weighing the shanks and placing them on the stack accordingly. I just did a random sampling on a set and found as much a .6 gr difference on the thinned shanks, and some of the non-thinned shanks weighed the same as the thinned. When I returned home from that seminar I weighed a set and found some of the thinned shanks heavier than some of the non. This certainly adds to the argument that weight will be a factor in voicing, touch, etc. Perhaps David will chime in here with more detail. I also found the wippens to have as much as 3 gr difference but that is another story best told by David. Don McKechnie dmckech@ithaca.edu See you in Corning! NYSCON 97 October 17-19, 1997 Radisson Hotel, Corning, NY 1-800-4-NYSCON http://www.servtech.com/public/asaginar/NYSCONHome.html
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