WNG Composite vs Wooden Shanks

All Wessell, Nickel & Gross composite hammer shanks are designed to be nearly identical in strength and rigidity to the ideal wooden shank. This provides the pianist with an unmatched level of uniformity and predictability in volume and tone that wooden hammer shanks can’t achieve. Wood is an organic material, and therefore inherently unpredictable in strength from one piece to the next. High-speed video capture of a note being played by composite and wooden shanks clearly demonstrates the variability in