The term "Tuning Hammer"??

[David Ilvedson]

Got to admit I do that same thing sometimes...but I do have a little hammer in my kit.   Don't tell Charles Faulk....

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044


----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "David Nereson" <dnereson at 4dv.net>
To: tune4u at earthlink.net, "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 11/4/2006 10:48:22 PM
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