2 Unusual Happenings

[Farrell]

Did all this happen on a teacher's 1925 Baldwin L in Tampa?????   ;-)

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sy Zabrocki" <only4zab@imt.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 6:56 PM
Subject: 2 Unusual Happenings


> Last Saturday I was tuning along in my shop when MY TUNING HAMMER BROKE.
> The extension shaft broke right at the threads where it screws into the
> lever head.
> 
> Then on Tuesday, three days later, I was tuning with another hammer when the
> NO. 2 STAR TIP BROKE IN TWO. One half flaked off and other half popped off
>  the threads when I pushed on it with my finger. I couldn't believe it.
> 
> It's probably unlikely that either of these tools would break in a lifetime.
> What are
> the odds that both would break for one person in a three day period. I
> wondered
> if it was some mystic message for me. Maybe I should stay home for few days.
> 
> This Hale rosewood tuning hammer was given to me in 1970 after another tuner
> had died. So I've used it or 32 years and I don't know how long he used it.
> I can only guess it broke because of "metal fatigue".
> 
> I'm estimating this hammer visited probably 7 or 8 million pins and then
> this one
> pin on a Kimball blew it away. It's like it had a heart attack and died.
> 
> Just when you think you've seen it all . . . you haven't.
> 
> Sy Zabrocki--RPT
> Billings, MT
> 
> 
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