At 09:17 PM 12/3/97 +0100, Isaac wrote: >I am surprizes nobody talk about Wanderwand, or tuning balls. >It solves absolutly all my back and neck pains. An the X-rays said it >was un-curable (between the scooter, the car, the tunings, and so on) > >Do some tuners use these yet ? I use a custom made one with an exotic hardwood "ball" on the end. The ball actually looks more like an old-fashioned door-pull rather than a round ball as it's slightly flattened with a base that the steel rod screws into. I use the shortest tip I could find with a 15 degree angle on it. It works beautifully, although I only use it on verticals. For grands I still prefer the copy of an old Hale that Mike Swendsen also made for me out of blackwood (the wood they make clarinets from). That hammer has a LONG tip on it that was made long before WWII and it is stilll very tight on the pins. And you're right... the Wonderwand has taken quite a bit of the pain away from tuning verticals. John John Musselwhite, RPT Calgary, Alberta Canada musselj@cadvision.com http://www.cadvision.com/musselj/
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