I have also had a large variety of tuning levers over the years. The first was a Grover brand, bought from Lyon & Healy in Chicago in 1969. I now use it in my class on piano levers to demonstrate a really bad head fit on the tuning pins. Kent is right on when he reminds us about this small but crucial detail. At the end of last year, I sold my Fujan lever. It worked great, but I did not like the feel in my hand. Previous to that an older Faulk titanium lever was my everyday tool for grands. (I like the impact lever for verticals.) I really wanted to go to the Falk carbon fiber, but Charles Faulk talked me out of it for one reason. I like to change tips fairly often and he told me that the CF (I think this stands for carbon fiber, not Charles Faulk) may not hold up to frequent tip or head changes. I tune a number of European grands that have 1/0 tuning pins and a #2 head feels just awful on them. My newest lever is a Faulk titanium lever that is longer than my original. I have been using it for about two months now. For much of the first month, I had trouble keeping the Faulk head tight on the shaft. I have replaced it with a Schaff 10 degree head which is working much better. I am finding more flex than I like with the new lever.. this is getting expensive! We all have our bears to cross. Bruce Dornfeld, RPT bdornfeld at earthlink.net North Shore Chapter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090325/6119bd65/attachment.html>
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