shank length

[Jon Page]

At 12:22 PM 12/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>  jonpage@attbi.com writes:
>
> >Has anyone reduced the shank length 3mm on a S&S to about 126mm
> >and relocated the stack further back 3mm?
>
>No, I've never done that.
>What is the reasoning for this?  It seems that you would need a 2" hammer
>blow to use that much leverage and the hammer tails just might be hitting the
>ends of the whippens.  (sounds like the doorway to a nightmare,but let us
>know what happens.....)
>
>Ed Foote RPT

Plenty of room for the tails in regards to the wippens.
Upon further thought I abandoned this musing.
Regards,

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@attbi.com
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