tuning tips

[David Love]

I mean that the tuning lever works best when it is at 90 degrees to the pin,
i.e., sticks straight out parallel to the floor.  But that doesn't allow
enough clearance so you have to add 5, 10 or 15 degrees.  I find 10 works
the best for a combination of clearance and keeping the lever as close to 90
degrees as possible.  I prefer to use a very short head and tip combo--as
short as I can find.  If you go to a longer head then I would reduce the
angle as much as possible.  

David Love
davidlovepianos@comcast.net 

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf
Of David Ilvedson
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 8:46 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: RE: tuning tips

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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