---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment Folks, I never expected to get so much mileage from what I thought was a simple topic. Thanks to one and all who have posted your ideas about tuning levers. I found it all to be very valuable as I'm sure many after me will as well. Ya gotta love those archives :-) I have settled on a Watanabe as I posted earlier in part because it is like my old Hale lever and in part because I just had to have an extension lever. BTW it's an octagonal shaft not hexagonal as , I think, someone posted. It seems stiff enough to me and there is a good match between the body / shank/ and collet. There are no clicks of any kind and no excess play that I can tell and what's perhaps most important is that the tip fits quite well. All this brings me to my only problem with the lever and that is the diameter of the handle. I'd like it to be at least 30% (S.W.A.G.) thicker and perhaps with a ball or teardrop shape at the end, I don't know. Has anyone ever turned a new handle for their old extension lever? Can they be effectively separated from the steel collet and shank assembly? Can one obtain all the pieces of an extension lever such as the Watanabe (specifically) and turn their own handle? I guess I could just call Pianotek but I don't think they're in just now (11:45). Greg Newell mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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