Knucklebone! It's self-explanatory. A perfect term. Why on earth would anyone laminate a knucklebone? Do these little rascals ever snap off? I've never seen that. I mean you are just talking about a little 1/8" thick sliver of wood....er, a, bone. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 5:28 PM Subject: Re: lamiknucklewood > >Are the hammers mounted on the side of the knuckle or somehow on the rounded > >surface. Mounted either way, new or worn, that could be part of your problem > >right there. ;-) > > > >Terry Farrell > > > Hmmm... I'll check. Let's see now - the knucklebone's connected to the > shankbone. Oh yea, that's right. I've got it now. Left out the shank part. > > Hey, I've just renomenclated a part! Never much liked "knuckle wood" as a > highly professional technical term anyway. Knucklebone is much classier. > > Now who makes shanks with laminated knucklebones? > > > Ron N
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