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<div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">>So you would put
the lighter weight shanks with the</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">>larger knuckles
on the most overweight hammers.</font></div>
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<div>Not necessarily. I might place the heaviest shanks (2 g) in
the low tenor</div>
<div>section. It all depends on hammer weight and target curve, not to
force</div>
<div>the curve but to bring the set to a reasonable graduation. If the
bass</div>
<div>hammers are fairly heavy already, I might place the 1.7 g shanks
there</div>
<div>saving the 1.8's and 1.9's to bring the center of the set up. It
all depends</div>
<div>on the individual weight of the set.</div>
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<div>I place similar height knuckles together for uniform geometry.
Let's say</div>
<div>the bulk of the heights measure .640" (shank and knuckle).
These I would</div>
<div>place in the center of the keyboard according to weight match.
Ones that</div>
<div>measure high (.645") and low (.635") would be placed
towards the extremes.</div>
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<div>Any measuring outside this range, and I didn't have spares, would
be placed</div>
<div>at the end somewhere appropriate for their weight
consideration.</div>
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<div>So the lowest and highest octaves will have knuckle heights mixed
of low and high</div>
<div>and average with the rest of the keyboard containing the average.
To graphically depict this:</div>
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>lhlahlhlhalhallaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahlahlh<span
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<div>This brings uniformity to the most-played region of the keyboard.
Although I do try to</div>
<div>group heights in the extremes too if possible.</div>
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<div>hhhhhhhhllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllhhhhhhhh</div>
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<div>I haven't thought it out enough to figure a transition...is it
advantageous to have the</div>
<div>larger heights or the lower heights at the ends. Or does it
matter. llllhhhaaaaaahhhllll</div>
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<div>I'm usually limited by what's available in the set.</div>
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Regards,<br>
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Jon Page</div>
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