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[Conrad Hoffsommer]

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

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