Sorry, typo first try. see below From: wilsonpiano at hotmail.com To: piantech at ptg.org Subject: Tuning hammer heads Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:13:54 +1000 Hi All I have been thinking about tuning hammer heads since Tom Driscoll's post last week. btw nice work Tom! I looked at the link and found the default head was a 15 degree. There was a testomonial stating the user now prefers the 15 degree over the older way of using the 5 degree. Please enlighten me. Why do these new hammers have a default head of 15 degrees? eg Faulk, Fujan and now Driscoll. Most of these first two come with a 15 and yes I know you can order the 5. I know that it is best to be as close to the tuning pins as possible and the hammer must move in a circle, etc and no bending of the pins etc ! but I am intrigued why . Do you have higher plates ? Convienient ? Just the way you do it? I did try a 15 on a schaff tuning hammer. It seemed so strange, and I felt like I was going to bend the pin I too, have been using 5 and 10 degree heads over the years. My first tool kit was purchased through Kawai and the tuning hammer was a 5 degree Itoshin. I remember seeing these tuning hammers in the Hamamatsu factory. Since wearing that tool out, I bought a Watanabe and that is 10 degrees. That tool took a while to get used to, as 10 degrees to me seems large. Reminds of running up a 10 degree hill... ouch Thoughts please ? btw haven't posted anything for a while... when you have nothing to say, say nothing.. Regards Brian Brian Wilson Brisbane, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100909/819c16f9/attachment.htm>
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