Schaff Tuning Levers - slap tuning

[Ed Sutton]

Susan-

    The elementary things are the ones that give me the most trouble!  So it is
good to hear top technicians talk about elementary stuff.

    This thread caused me to pay more attention to my hammer technique this
morning. I use a ball end hammer, and would describe it as more bumping than
slapping.  I don't seat the tip all the way down on the pin, so there is a little
rocking or knocking going on in there.  If the pitch is moving in very micro
increments, I will just move up or down to it, but if there's any sense of
"movement," I immediately switch to an "over and under" or "under and over"
approach.  I believe I always finish with light test taps up and down or down and
up as I remove the tip from the pin, making sure the pin is stable.

    It all gets quite unconscious, or at least pre-verbal.  I was surprised this
morning to see how much bumping I was doing; I would have said otherwise.

Ed Sutton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Kline" <skline@peak.org>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:45 AM
Subject: RE: Schaff Tuning Levers - slap tuning


> At 07:44 AM 11/7/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >For pitch raises, a larger jerk right to pitch works most of the time,
> >unless circumstances seem to dictate a quick jerk down first
>
> Yes, the longer the piano has sat untouched, the more important it is to
> make that little nudge downwards as the first motion. The smallest tap or
> push that is convenient, just enough to get the pitch to change. I do that
> with most tuning, with or without the slap, on the first pass.
>
> Does it seem to you that, even though we are on CAUT, we're dealing with
> elementary topics here? Never mind, it doesn't hurt to go over things again.
>
> Susan
>
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