CF Tuning Lever

[Phil Bondi]

Hi all.

I would have never believed it if I didn't 
experience it for myself...

Today was my first day with a new Carbon Fiber 
tuning lever from Charles Faulk. A good one word 
answer to how I feel about it: wow.

I pulled it out of the box this morning - first 
tuning was a Baldwin Vertical that hasn't been 
tuned since before Charles was making 
Titanium(yes, I own one)..once I got past how 
light the lever is, and how effortless it moves 
even these tight tuning pins, it was almost 
business as usual...why almost?

Because the most revealing feature of a lever 
this light and this stiff is how easily the pins 
now set. That little bit of 'meow' that we all 
do battle with when setting pins was a breeze. 
I'm not sure exactly why it was so easy..but I 
did notice that I was using more of my torso to 
tune than the arm and shoulder area.

The next piano was a beauty - Yamaha CFlll. My 
experience with this particular piano is one of 
fun and very easy to tune. This lever acted like 
butter on a hot skillet with these pins.

I still can't get over how quickly and 
effortlessly this lever moves pins. If you go to 
his site:

http://www.faulkpiano.com/CFTuningHammer/

the one he sent me looks an awful lot like 
CF1..and if it is, you will be signing this 
tuning lever in Anaheim, Mr. Faulk. I remember 
asking you about CF when you were first 
experimenting with it..asking for a sample to 
try. You said you weren't ready. It was worth 
the wait.

  I am immensely impressed. That's not something 
I say often.

-Phil Bondi(Fl)