shank strike weights

Mark Davidson mark.davidson@mindspring.com
Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:58:16 -0500


Ric Brekne writes:

 >The shank Strike weights showed a high of 2.06 grams and a
 >low of 1.40 That works out to about 3.5 grams of static
 >down weight at the key.  The hammers themselves had a few
 >big jumps here and there and started off at a mid medium
 >curve with a nice bulge up to top medium in the mid treble
 >and again in the mid high treble.  All  in all I could
 >have ended up with a real interesting set of combined s
 >trike weights had I not spent the time matching shank
 >sw's to hammer dead weights.

So how'd you match them?  Big with small, big with big, or
just trying to smooth out the bumps?  Perhaps you could post
the hammer and shank sw that you ended up with for each note?

-Mark

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