As a few have commented, expensive does not necessarily mean better. It's what works for you. Attached is a photo of my tuning gear. I carry three levers, two of them goose neck. My preferred tuning lever is the small g/n. I use this whenever there is clearance and the pins are not too tight. It has a solid feel, the tip is a perfect fit and offers perfect control. The larger g/n has a small tip (#1 ?) and is good for many Asian pianos. The grand-daddy in the middle is a stationary Hale, I've had various extension levers and have chosen this. I don't change tips, I found it too time consuming and thread damaging. The long heads have a #2 & #4 tips, The medium head has a #3, the short tip has a #2. Then there's the thin-walled #2 with adaptor for pins in close proximity. All at 5 degrees. I bent the goose necks to equal the stationary lever. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has a little gem of a goose neck lever. I have a collection of seven various levers sitting in a drawer (a few collector's items). Some of which are g/n levers which are terrible but sometimes one comes along... Jim C probably has a collection as well for you to sample. Go with his advice. -- Regards, Jon Page -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: tuning gear.jpg Type: application/octet-stream Size: 89468 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070119/d88fec5b/attachment-0001.obj
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