Thanks, it really is very rigid and light. Rick Ucci/ Ucci Piano On Apr 4, 2010, at 1:15 AM, Ryan Sowers <tunerryan at gmail.com> wrote: > NIIICE. I've had my eye on one of those for the past couple of > years. I had a titanium lever that I really enjoyed for quite a few > years. My wife started learning tuning last year and we bought her > the new Levitan tuning lever that Dan Levitan designed and Pianotek > is selling. I borrowed it to try it out and ended up stealing it > from her! > > I'm looking forward this year to doing a flex test on all the custom > levers. Steve Fujan has a set-up at his booth to measure flex in > tuning levers. It would be very interesting to see how the new Faulk > levers compare to the Fujan and the Levitan levers. > > I have become convinced that stiffer and lighter is better. I can > feel whats happening in the pin much better and the control is > noticeably improved. The more flexible the lever is the more > potential energy gets stored in it. Once the pin overcomes its > static friction all that energy dumps into the pin causing it to > turn more than with a stiffer lever. At least that's what it feels > like! > > Congrats on your new toy! Worth every penny! > > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Richard <richard.ucci at att.net> wrote: > Dudes, my new Faulk hammer. Luv it. > Sooo light , and a thing of beauty. > Charles is a pleasure to deal with, and now I just have to choose > which pianos are worthy. BTW it's speckled maple and East Indian > Rosewood. > > > > > > Rick Ucci/ Ucci Piano > > > > -- > 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/20100405/a70c2d8c/attachment.htm>
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