<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=733400914-31072005><FONT = face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>No, you don't understand.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=733400914-31072005><FONT = face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The correct sequence for using yellow pencils = as shanks is as follows:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=733400914-31072005><FONT = face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2># 1's for the first octave, #2's for the second = octave, #3's for the third octave, etc.etc.... <G></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=733400914-31072005><FONT = face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=733400914-31072005><FONT = face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>John Fortiner</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Susan Kline = [mailto:skline@peak.org] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 30, 2005 11:21 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Pianotech<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: Different materials for hammer shanks<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV>At 11:03 PM 7/30/2005 -0600, you wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=arial = color=#0000ff size=2>A bright yellow #2 lead pencil used for the shank.  = Hmmmm...and I wondered why it didn't sound or feel the same as the other notes/keys/hammers....</BLOCKQUOTE><BR></FONT><FONT size=2>Should = have used a #3 lead pencil ... but only in the treble. A #1 lead pencil for the bass = ...</FONT> </BODY></HTML>