[CAUT] in praise of impact hammers

[Jeff Tanner]

On Monday, July 25, 2005, at 03:46 PM, Leslie Bartlett wrote:

> The pins were so tight on the Falcone I feared some would break.

See, this is exactly where I would think the impact hammer would be 
more likely to break tight pins than a standard hammer.

I just can't imagine having the same control.  I have no control trying 
to "bump" the tuning hammer with tight pins.  All that usually happens 
is that the pin twists, the string renders, but the pin does not budge 
in the block and everything goes right back south with a few sharp test 
blows.

We have a faculty member here who bought an impact hammer years ago 
when he worked for a music store out west.  I'll see if he'll let me 
borrow it to try.

Jeff T