Dave, Changing tuning hammers made the difference for me, and it was immediate. I bought one of Keith Bowman's hammers through Renner. You can try them out and find one that fits your hand. Mine is sort of pear-shaped. Holding the end of the hammer with forearm sideways took the twist in the elbow out of tuning - that isometric you're performing. I also bought a ball from Joe Goss for another hammer. I also did pitch work left-handed to learn tuning with that side, and never have been sorry. Good luck, Ruth Phillips On Mar 29, 2006, at 11:22 PM, Dave McKibben wrote: > > Hello list: > > I am rather new to piano tuning. I have studied and practiced part > time for about 2 years, and have tuned part time for the last year +. > As the tuning jobs increased in the last 6 months or so, and this > is only 1-4 pianos a week, my elbow has become painfull to the > point that I cant move it doing anything without pain. > My question is for anyone who has had this pain and found a cure. > Can you share what you did, what you found, and how you fixed the > problem?? > It's rather disapointing to finally find something I REALLY like to > do after 50 yrs of searching only to find my body can't deliver. > I'm right handed, thinking of practicing left handed, or going to > an impact hammer. > Any thoughts from the healed happy tuners, if your out there?? > > DavesPianotuning at earthlink.net > http://www.home.earthlink.net/~davespianotuning/ > 858-776-2516 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060330/99a61bbd/attachment.html
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