Hadn't thought of driving tuning pins using the tuning lever (hammer) as a pin setter. Only one question: How do you get the thing off the pin? Wouldn't the blow wedge the head on the pin? You'd need to heat up the head to get it off, I presume. Now that I think of it, I'm glad I didn't! Pun intended! Joy! Elwood Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731/881-1852 FAX: 731/881-7415 HOME: 731/587-5700 -----Original Message----- From: David Nereson [mailto:dnereson at 4dv.net] Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 12:48 AM To: tune4u at earthlink.net; Pianotech List Subject: RE: The term "Tuning Hammer"?? When a unison needs to be aligned to its hammer, rather than fish out a separate hammer for tapping the string spacing tool, I just use the "hammer" end of the tuning hammer. Once in a while a balance rail pin (key pin) will work its way out of the balance rail, sticking way up above the key button, and I'll tap it back in with the tuning hammer. [I know, I know, but this is a cheap spinet that only gets tuned every 7 years.] If it weren't a "nice" tool that you don't want to bang up, you could also use it for driving tuning pins by placing it on the pin to be driven in, then hitting the rear flat surface with some other hammer, but then they make a special tool for that. But in a pinch (?) . . . . --David Nereson, RPT
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