At 08:49 AM 5/12/2006 -0400, you wrote: >What is perplexing is that the bass hammers are lower than the treble. >What I imagine is that they had to use existing hammer sets, with shorter >bass hammers than trebles. >Therefore, they could not have identical bore distances because the >mouldings were shorter in the bass. >The bass shanks are shorter so the hammers can reach the strings with the >same geometry (arc of shank, etc.) as the trebles. >Ed Sutton I'm confused... wouldn't the bass shanks have to be _longer_ to have the shorter bored hammers reach the strings? If they have the same arc, a longer radius (shank) would yield a longer chord (hammer travel). Conrad Hoffsommer All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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