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<p>Alltypetune@aol.com wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Sorry, I picked up on this discussion late.
<p>If the knuckles are bad, under what condition do you consider it best,
in the
<br>interest of time, to just replace the knuckles in lieu of new shanks
and
<br>flanges.
<p>Ron May
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<p><br>Depends on a few things I suppose. New shanks cost money and need
a bit of fitting to the instrument, implies a hammer change in anycase.
Knuckles themselves get replaced easily enough. You can pop off an old
set and get a new set installed very nicely in a couple hours. If you have
a set of poorly installed knuckles and hammers and shanks are otherwise
reasonably ok.... In anycase i choose that over bolstering for the most
part now.
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<br>Richard Brekne
<br>RPT, N.P.T.F.
<br>UiB, Bergen, Norway
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