[CAUT] in praise of impact hammers

[Jeff Olson]

I continue to be skeptical that anyone who's used an impact hammer would not 
prefer them under most circumstances for uprights.

JO
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Bartlett" <l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 12:46 PM
Subject: [CAUT] in praise of impact hammers


> I'm sharing a bias because it really saved me some work yesterday. Our 
> choir
> bought a piano for the son or our organist who is promising, and lives 
> with
> Cystic Fibrosis- so a great bunch of 20 people or so pooled resources, and
> ended up with a Falcone.................................  Well, it was
> sooooooooooo far ahead of the Whitney spinet our organist had wrecked 30
> years ago, which was what he had to play on.
>
> The pins were so tight on the Falcone I feared some would break.  I saw 
> some
> LOVELY new impact hammers that Dean Rayburn is selling, at about $250 more
> than I could afford, so I got the Schaff one for $75, and did some 
> altering.
> Removed a little weight of the top, and then made a nice padded handle. 
> The
> piano averaged 17.7 cents flat (TuneLab 2.0), and after I yanked the thing
> up with the impact hammer, I actually had a fair number of "free" strings 
> in
> the second pass.   Letting the banging do the work worked nicely. I also
> tuned our horrilbe Samick with it, not making a second pass, and the next
> day there were only a couple of strings which had strayed.  My total
> experience is limited to three pianos, but I certainly think the tool has 
> a
> valid place. It's convinced me it's marvelous at least for tight pins and
> large pitch raises.
> les barllett
>


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