Hi Jim, Not getting splinters in your fingers would be a good start. Having the friction of pinning within 1-2gms another. Joking aside, long term stability would be the #1 critera, the amount of re-travel and burn in that I see on Hornbeam is negligable. the only other type of shanks that approach this kind of stability is Yamaha and they are Maple. So back to the $64.000 question is it the tight QC on selection of material and manufacture the key. Some flex in the shank is desireable, that's one of the reasons why we taper the treble shanks. ( store a little energy in the shank for a faster rebound.) I tend to think that TLC in manufacture is the primary reason to attain superiority. regards Roger At 05:15 PM 6/6/99 EDT, you wrote: > >In a message dated 6/06/1999 4:59:31 PM, rrg@nevada.edu writes: > ><< Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > >> And who -- besides Renner, that is -- really believes that hornbeam shanks >are >> superior to even relatively decent maple shanks? > >ME. > >Rob Goodale, RPT > >> > >Rob, Del, Roger; > Perhaps we should define "superior" ? > What qualities make one shank "superior" to another? >Jim Brynat (FL) > Roger Jolly Balwin Yamaha Piano Centres. Saskatoon/Regina. Canada.
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