Schaff Tuning Levers - slap tuning

[Otto Keyes]

Sounds like a job for an impact hammer to me!  I do all my vertical tuning
with an impact -- Lots less fatigue.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Kline" <skline@peak.org>
To: <oleg-i@noos.fr>; "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:08 AM
Subject: RE: Schaff Tuning Levers - slap tuning


> At 04:29 PM 11/6/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >Do some of you use that kind of karate method ?
>
> Not all the time, but it sure helps get up the pitch of uprights with
tight
> tuning pins.
>
> I slap with an open palm, with the tuning lever between noon and 3 p.m. It
> took a little practice to find out how to do it without hurting my hand,
> but in the long run it saves me a lot of fatigue and sore muscles. One
> would think that the jerking motion would break more strings, but so far
it
> hasn't.
>
> Susan Kline
>
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