Tuning levers

[Greg Newell]

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Greetings listees,
         Could I please have your opinions about either the Wonderwand, and 
"THE ORIGINAL TITANIUM TUNING HAMMER" as advertised in the Journal and the 
Japanese levers from Pianotek? I am in need of replacing my original Hale 
lever which I sheared the head off of about a month ago. I guess I really 
shouldn't leave them out in the car on cold winter nights huh? I'm keenly 
interested in the fit of the tip as was recently mentioned. Although I was 
able to find replacement shanks and heads and tip for my Hale lever through 
Schaff they quickly stripped as the threading is not so good, to say the 
least. I saw a few at Chicago's convention but as luck would have it I 
didn't need one then. I'm leaning toward staying with an extension hammer 
as it allows some clearance of the bulk of the lever in tight plate 
configurations. This seems more prevalent in high treble areas. Any hands 
down favorites out there of these or any other levers?

Greg Newell

P.S. impact hammer users need not respond. That's definitely not for me! :-)

P.P.S. I concerned about available parts , i.e. tips and such.

Greg Newell
mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net

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