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HAMMER SHANK [7 records]

Record 1 2024-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • Percussion Instruments
  • String Instruments
DEF

A wooden dowel bearing a hammer in a piano action.

Key term(s)
  • hammer-shank

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
  • Instruments de musique à percussion
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
CONT

Le manche de marteau est un bâton de bois qui maintient la tête du marteau recouverte de feutre. Équipé d'un axe relié à l'olive, il permet le mouvement de levier et fait le lien entre la propulsion et la frappe.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • Percussion Instruments
  • String Instruments
CONT

Hammer shank reducer. This piano tool is used to remove glue and reduce the size of hammer shanks to fit new hammer heads.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
  • Instruments de musique à percussion
  • Instruments de musique à cordes

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
  • Keyboard Instruments
CONT

The hammer is the characteristic component of a piano action, composed of a head, heel, shank and butt... which strike the keys when pressed down...

CONT

When the player presses down a key, it moves a system of levers that propels a hammer. ... the hammer hits the string of its own momentum; and instantly jumps away.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
DEF

Pièce de bois, dont l'extrémité supérieure feutrée frappe une corde de piano et la met en vibration quand on abaisse la touche correspondante du clavier.

CONT

Le marteau se compose de trois parties : la tête, couverte de plusieurs couches de feutre, le manche et la base.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumentos de cuerda
  • Instrumentos de teclado
DEF

Pieza del piano, a modo de mazo con mango y cabeza forrada de fieltro por uno de sus lados, con la cual, a impulso de la tecla, se hiere la cuerda correspondiente.

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Record 4 1996-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Joining Elements (Mechanical Components)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

Using a rivet set.... Also in the face [of the rivet set], at the bottom, is a deep hole. The hole is placed over the rivet shank and the rivet set struck with a hammer. This serves to flatten the metal around the rivet and draw the work together.

OBS

shank: ... that portion of a headed fastener which lies between the head and the extreme point.

OBS

rivet shank:term standardized by ISO.

OBS

rivet shank: Term officialized by the ATSC - Helicopters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments d'assemblage (Composants mécaniques)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
OBS

tige de rivet : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

OBS

tige de rivet : terme uniformisé par le CUTA - Hélicoptères.

Spanish

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Record 5 1995-04-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
DEF

Small piece of wood that hinges to the hammer rail. It pushes the hammer at the rail end of its shank so that it strikes the key and falls back.

CONT

The escapement actuates the intermediate lever, which in turn imparts impulse to the hammer, hitting the string.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
DEF

Partie postérieure de la mince pièce de bois placée sur la table de certains instruments [ici, le piano] à corde pour soutenir les cordes tendues.

Spanish

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Record 6 1995-04-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • String Instruments
DEF

The small cylindrical felt and leather piece on the hammer-stems of a horizontal (grand) piano with which the jack makes contact.

CONT

the tip of [the hopper] imparts the thrust to the hammer by means of a small roller attached to the underside of the hammer shank.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
DEF

Pièce unique intermédiaire, entre les éléments du mécanisme, (essentiellement le bâton d'échappement) et le marteau.

CONT

la branche [...] de cet échappement qui traverse le petit levier, vient porter sous le rouleau qui se trouve sous le manche du marteau.

Spanish

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Record 7 1993-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
CONT

The hammer butt is the centered notch of the hammer shank shaped with the notch against the sticker of the hopper works. The hammer butt is pushed by the jack, causing the hammer to strike the string.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
DEF

Partie du marteau spécialement travaillé, suffisamment dur pour supporter le choc de l'échappement et le mouvement vertical du marteau.

Spanish

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