This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Wim, I tune uprights right-handed, sitting at a 45 degree angle and with my thumb at the end of my tuning lever and my knuckles toward the pins. In fact, that's how I was taught. I have seen the method you use, just haven't tried it. =20 Joy! Elwood =20 Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731/881-1852 FAX: 731/881-7415 HOME: 731/587-5700 _____ =20 From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Wimblees@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:08 PM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: [CAUT] hand and wrist position =20 This is more or less related to the recent discussion about our hands and wrists. We had a chapter meeting on Saturday at a Chiropractor's office. He's been helping one of our members with aches and pains.=20 =20 When tuning an upright, right handed, he told me that the best position to tune is to sit at a 45 degree angle to the piano, which is what I've been doing, but to hold my lever so that my hands are with the knuckles towards the pins. I was taught to hold the lever with my hand outstretched, with the thumb pointing down to the head, and my little finger at the top of the lever.=20 =20 I haven't had the chance to tune an upright yet, but do any of you hold the lever the way the Chiropractor suggests? =20 As far as a grand is concerned, we should hold the lever at then end, with a ball. I've not been doing this either, but I know a lot of you are. I'll get one, if there is one for sale, at the NCRC this weekend. =20 Wim =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/98/8d/fc/7a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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