The term "Tuning Hammer"??

[Alan R. Barnard]

Here is the rule: As long as you use it to whack at least one object per year (bridge pin, thumb tack for DC installation, etc.), it is fair, and legally and technically correct, to call it a hammer.

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO
Joshua 24:15



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett at earthlink.net>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 11/03/2006 11:48:54 AM
Subject: The term "Tuning Hammer"??


>Terry the Farrell said: "(I hate that term: hammer - where does that come
>from?) 

>Terry et al, 
>The reason for this term is, that, in the early times these "wrenches" or
>"levers", were, in fact, Hammers! They were "T" wrenches, with the top
>cross handle intended to be used to hammer tuning pins into the wrest
>plank. Some even had a stinging hook on them as well. Go figger. The term
>seems to persist.<G> Personally, I don't object to the term, as it is a way
>of differentiating from mechanics Wrenches. Merely semantics.<G> Besides,
>what's wrong with "TRADITION", (as in the song from "Fiddler On The
>Roof")????
>Best Regards,
>Joseph Garrett, R.P.T.
>Captain, Tool Police
>Squares R I