I tune left-handed. For uprights I tend to have the lever between 10 o'clock and 12. depending on height of the piano and other things, I too sometimes have fingers or the side of my hand resting against the piano top. I saw a tuner in a piano shop hold the lever in a curious way, which I don't think I can easily describe. I will need to take a photo and send! Best regards, David. "Is Ron Koval here? I noticed on his youtube videos, such as this one <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-HAzfDXx3s#t=6m45s>, he uses a hammer position of roughly 10 o'clock for uprights, at least for the tenor on up. I've tried it since, and can see an advantage using the fingers against the top of the piano for leverage (with thumb wrapped around the lever). I was wondering what the thinking was behind this? Is the leverage against the piano top? I can see where it could be useful to avoid standing as required by a 12 o'clock position. Or is it a stability trick? When I tried it, it seemed that I didn't have to put the "twist" back in the pin as I do when tuning from the 2 o'clock position. But I haven't really gotten a feel for the technique yet". -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090916/72d9c57c/attachment.htm>
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