At 18:49 11/12/99 -0700, you wrote: >All again.... >Well just cant help it....Why do they call that thing in your hand a TUNING >HAMMER? >Dick MT It's historic and folkloric... Tuning pins on things like harpsichords were, and some still are, tapered. If a pin is loose, all one has to do is to tap it to restore it's holding power. This was/is done with a t-handled device which, if you grab the tuning shaft becomes a hammer. So: If something you use to hit a nail is called a hammer, and... if German for tuning pin is Stimmnagel, and... if nail in German is Nagel. Then the thing in your hand must be a tuning hammer. Capisce? Conrad Hoffsommer mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu Chi si ferma è perduto.
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