Shank Lengths for Steinway L

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:25:51 +0200


Yeah.. but... :)  for the most part the rest of the piano has reasonably
uniform shank lengths ... or what ?

RicB

antares@euronet.nl wrote:

> According to me there are almost never definite shank lengths for
> Steinway grands despite the general prescribed measure of 13,5 cm from
> the center pin to the middle of the hammer mold/core.
> Especially in the third section (from the left) there are numerous
> possibilities and in the factory it is quite normal (!) to change the
> complete third section after second voicing. (yes we can do that
> because we earn enough money la di da)
>
> Antares,
> The Netherlands
>

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