I even tried a monkey wrench as a kid. I got one of those allen wrench jobs when I was in high school for 69 cents from Western Auto--the allen wrench was the handle for a whole assortment of tips. I still have it in my box of wrenches somewhere. I tried to tune a friend's piano with it after borrowing the tuning fork from the high school science lab. After several bass strings bit the dust in the bottom of the Behr Bros. upright, I "retired" from the profession. Until several years later when I got proper instruction from the technician who came regularly to the college where I studied. My second retirement has not yet come up, though I have been drawing social security for ten years. But that's a different subject. Bill Maxim, RPT ----- Original Message ----- From: Cy Shuster To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] websites Isaac Sadigursky has a wonderful collection of homemade tuning tools that he's confiscated from customers over the years. He brought them to the national (annual?) convention a while back. My favorite was a standard small socket from a socket wrench set, with an allen wrench inserted into the socket end. The customer used the square hole in the socket to fit over the tuning pin! :-( Anything is foolproof until a fool comes along... --Cy-- Cy Shuster, RPT ABQ, NM www.shusterpiano.com On May 15, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Jim Busby wrote: Here’s all you need to toon your own piano…. http://free-info-pages.com/images/p000.jpg I can’t believe what’s on line. Jim Busby -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090516/c5a73d7f/attachment.htm>
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