tuning tips

[David Ilvedson]

When you say tune perpendicular to the pin?  3 o'clock?   I tune at about 12 o'clock to 1 o'clock and I still sometimes have clearance problems (Adam Schaff...for instance) with my 15 degree head.   If I was tuning at 3:00 I could see having less clearance problems with a 10 degree head.   My Yamaha hammer has a long tip and that helped with clearance....

David I.



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos@comcast.net>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: 10/2/2005 6:55:28 AM
Subject: RE: tuning tips


>Sounds right.  A good fit of the tip is important but to me it's not how
>tight it is--and it can be too tight.  It's whether it matches the slope of
>the pin top.  I don't want the tip to be catching more at the top of the pin
>than the bottom as it increase the amount the pin is torqued and makes
>stable tuning more difficult.  You can feel this when you place the hammer
>on the pin and it has a fair amount of play at the bottom of the pin but not
>at the top.  There should be equal play overall.  The tip should come off
>the pin easily, but not too much.  

>Recently I purchased a titanium Faulk hammer(wow is it light--I already own
>a Bowman hammer), I prefer the ball type hammers as it's easier on the
>wrist.  At the suggestion of a colleague I purchased a couple of Watanabe
>tips of various sizes and they seem to "fit" very well.  I prefer the hammer
>set up at 10 degrees (rather than 5 or 15).  It's hard to find 10 degree
>head however.  Schaff does have a few left over from the old APSCO stuff.  I
>prefer to move the pin from an angle as close to perpendicular to the pin as
>I can get without having clearance problems.  Five degrees creates too many
>clearance problems and 15 degrees is more than you need.   

>David Love
>davidlovepianos@comcast.net 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf
>Of Ken Streetman
>Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 1:59 AM
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: tuning tips

>has anyone read this   http://www.pianotuningtools.net/ttips.html  it is 
>about tuning tips and some of the problems we seem to have with them 
>would like to here other comments about this.

>Ken

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