To add to Terry's comments:I own a CyberHammer. It was one of the earlier ones, and not the titanium kind. It works well, but I'm mostly using it only on pianos with really tight pins. I find that using the Fujan carbon fiber lever with a karate chop motion works better for me ... except on those pianos with really tight pins. The Fujan, for me, is faster and much lighter. The CyberHammer I have is a bit over one pound. As far as hand fatigue goes, I think I had some of that even with the CH. But after getting the muscles used to that new technique, everything is now fine. I think the older impact lever that Schaff sold was called the Mehaffey. I used one of those briefly, but didn't ever feel comfortable with it. The CH is a better tool. -- JF On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > I have a Schaff impact lever also. I see in my Schaff Catalog they only > offer the "Keyes" impact lever - that is not the one I have - I forget who > the designer is. > > Be that as it may, I think all old-world impact levers are much to large > and heavy for tuning. I put a bunch of felt on my lever and wrapped the > entire thing with rubber tape - made it much more comfy. However, I only use > it for pitch raises on pianos with tight tuning pins. > > IMHO, if one want to use/get an impact lever, there is only one source for > impact levers for use in fine tuning - the Reyburn CyberHammer. > http://www.reyburn.com/cyberhammer.html I've tried his levers at > conventions and they are simply amazing - very controlable. The difference > between the cyberhammer and my clunky heavy impact lever is night-and-day. > > Check it out. > > Good luck. > > Terry Farrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090108/a03fc3a8/attachment.html>
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