This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment _____ From: Michael Gamble [mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk] Sent: 14 September 2005 15:16 To: 'Susan Kline' Subject: RE: New Tuning Hammer Hello Susan and List I only use levers on uprights (verticals) on all pianos that lie-down-flat I use a 'T' hammer. I have a whole bunch of those for square pianos 'cos some of the squares are dated late 1700's when the tuning pins were hand made and no two were of the same dimension! Great fun!, Most en-joy-a-ble! I agree they can be a back pain - particularly when the pins are right at one end (the bass end) in a bunch. I am left handed, you see, so quite a bit of cross-hand-boogie is required! Some have their pins along the spine then I have to find some antique chair to open the top lid on to. For this is usually in a museum and frequently there are visitors hanging around asking questions.. Regards from sunny Sussex Michael _____ From: Susan Kline [mailto:skline@peak.org] Sent: 14 September 2005 07:08 To: Pianotech Subject: RE: New Tuning Hammer At 07:14 AM 9/14/2005 +0100, you wrote: there's too few positions you can use on an oblong pin - both at 180deg. To each other. Hello, Michael. I have a system for dealing with the oblong pins, though it's been awhile since I agreed to tune a square. They are awfully hard on one's back. The supply houses (at least over here) have a little extender to use when grand struts are too tall for your normal lever and tip to reach the first row of pins. One end looks like a tuning pin top, and the other is threaded to accept a normal tuning tip. I just put my oblong tuning tip on it. Then when tuning a square, I just pick it up, and move it by hand to the next tuning pin. Since the top is square like a normal tuning pin, my ordinary tuning hammer, with all 8 positions available due to the star tip, will fit over it at whatever angle I choose. It is all a little bit tippy, but it does work. It lives in the flannel bag with my tip wrench and other tuning tips -- you know, the bag which should live in the car, but which I use to hold my kit down in case of hurricanes. Susan ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d8/41/01/72/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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