Great thinking, Ryan. I was under the impression that the Levitan lever was designed to work on most any piano without the need to change tips. For which piano(s) are you needing to change tips, and why? A 15º head with the extension on my Fujan works with every piano I tune regularly. Before, I was using a 5º with extension, and it didn't work on a few. There are two pianos I tune that need the thin-wall tip. I keep an old Hale with that tip in the trunk. When I need it, it's always there, and I don't have to worry about fiddling with changing tips. -- JF On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Ryan Sowers <tunerryan at gmail.com> wrote: > I love my Levitan tuning lever that I purchased from pianotek last year. > Nearly as stiff and light as a Fujan, but less weird looking and only $135. > The only kicker is that the head is welded to the shaft for extra rigidity, > thus I can't switch tips simply by switching heads like I used to on my old > lever. So I had to go back to using a tip wrench. Well, one day to my > chagrin I left it in my shop and needed to switch tips in the field. > Neccesity, being the mother of invention, stimulated my creativity. I > discovered that the large flat blade screwdriver that fits in a tuning > wrench for tightening plate screws used with a small crescent wrench works > beautifully! Now I don't need to carry the tip wrench at all, saving several > ounces in my kit! > > -- > Ryan Sowers, RPT > Puget Sound Chapter > Olympia, WA > www.pianova.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100402/0822c7e9/attachment.htm>
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