[CAUT] in praise of impact hammers

[Otto Keyes]

"Bumping" is not impact tuning.  Give the impact hammer a try -- long enough
to learn a bit of control with it.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Tanner" <jtanner@mozart.sc.edu>
To: <l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net>; "College and University Technicians"
<caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] in praise of impact hammers


>
> 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
>
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