For accuracy, let me quote the book (Grand Obsession): "The shanks are out of order-- the pitch of one is too high for the treble section." ES ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> To: "Ed Sutton" <ed440 at mindspring.com>; "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 12:05 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Shank to Hammer weight spreadsheet > >> Meanwhile, I just read that in the Grotrian factory they sort to put the >> low-pitched shanks at the top. Better for the tone that way. It was in >> print, so it must be true. >> Ed Sutton > > Unassailable, really, except for one thing. I'm told you should taste the > shanks, with the sweetest going to the treble. Intuitively, that's just > gotta be right to avoid those sour notes. But then I wonder about what to > do with a sweet shank that goes "tink", as apposed to one that goes > "tock", or "tunk". Which takes priority, the taste, or the tock? Tock, I > hear, is cheap, so I wonder how valuable an indicator it truly is. It > seems a shame to risk compromising the optimum tonal potential on a matter > of taste, but I'm not sure just what to tink here, so I ask. > > And shouldn't flange pinning factor in here somewhere too, or is that just > a matter of taste as well? > > Ever amazed, > Ron N
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