Capstan Relocation

[Richard Moody]

You wrote.... 

>and we're  all left playing actions with 150g+ escapements. Go figure.

What is 150g+ escapements?     ---ric 

 
> To my knowledge there's only one shank which will achieve this and 
> that's the aeolean shank of the '20s, in which reducing the knuckle 
> to the one quadrant of it actually used by the jack, cut the height 
> of the standard knuckle by 1/2. You're right, none of the R&D dept's 
> in our favorite piano factories  have been concerned enough with 
> towing this line (axis) to find a better shaped knuckle, and we're 
> all left playing actions with 150g+ escapements. Go figure.
> 
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter
>