Air Hammer

[jolly roger]

Hi Brian,
             I had a 14" pin punch made up for the shop, lot's of
clearance. It is epecially good for the bottom bass strings in verticals,
up and past the side of the case. You know the type where they strung the
back assembly in the factory,  then glued the case around it. 
 Most pianos I have to use it for the bottom two strings, the air hammer I
have gets too close to the case for comfort.
Roger


At 07:29 AM 5/2/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Greg,

>Speaking of beating things up...  It's very easy on the old conventional 
>method of hammering in those tuning pins to go a little longer than needed 
>between breaks and get tired or get a little distracted or whatever, and 
>next thing you know, you have a two pound hammer that MISSES the tuning pin 
>punch and has a brief but painful meeting with either the stretcher, the 
>plate or the hand holding the punch requiring a touch up in the wood, touch 
>up of the plate or a Band-Aid or some ice, or...
>
>Have fun!
>
>Brian Trout