1879 Steinway A

[Bernhard Stopper]

Hello Ric,

Renner has a shank with 15.5 mm. The catalog Nr. is 0640H (standard knuckle)
and 0640K(small knuckle)

regards,

Bernhard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "Newtonburg" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 12:25 PM
Subject: 1879 Steinway A


> Hey folks
>
> Am just getting started changing a set of hammers and shanks on this old
> A.  The new shanks place the shank center pin about 2 mm further away
> from the hammer rail. This pushes the knuckles just a bit farther back
> then I would like, and will force me to go through all whippens and
> remove a bit of the jack return cushion in order to regulate the jacks.
> The origional whippens are going to remain and there is no regulating
> button for this position on those for those of you that arent familiar
> with this older type of Steinway action. The origional centerpin to
> knuckle was 15.5. So with the new shanks at 17, and the center itself
> out about 2 mm... the knuckle itself is out about 3.5 mm more.  The jack
> to knuckle position with the origional shanks and knuckles has the jack
> well under the knuckle and past the back end of the core... so there is
> room to make the adjustment to get a good position with the new shanks.
>
> I'm looking for suggestions and thoughts as to what to do here. I could
> go through and change all flanges so as to use the origionals I
> suppose.. I checked one and the jack ended up just perfect under the
> knuckle... but then I have to change all the flanges on the new set.
>
> so whadaya whadaya ?
>
> RicB
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