CyberHammer Recommendation - was RE: Tuning Hammers

[John M. Formsma]

On many verticals, one can rest his elbow on the key cover. This is really
nice, and you can almost totally relax and tune. When one doesn't have this
option, it is still not the same effort as holding a traditional lever, and
having your body in unnatural positions.

But, yeah, thanks for the tip about reducing shoulder stress through
exercise. We all should get plenty of various kinds of exercise to keep our
bodies operating better. It's just so easy not to. ;-)

JF

>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
>Behalf Of Dean May
>Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 6:53 AM
>To: 'Pianotech List'
>Subject: RE: CyberHammer Recommendation - was RE: Tuning Hammers
>
>>>In the course of a tuning you will automatically do a fairly equal number
>of clockwise and counterclockwise throws, so it "evens out" your muscle
>tension as Dean May wrote about.
>
>Actually, it doesn't. You are still holding your arm up either way which
>strains your upper shoulder and neck muscles. What you need to work on are
>the side muscles below your armpits in back: latisimus dorsal or some such
>name. Those are balancing muscles to the deltoids on top. Exercise them by
>doing pull down routines on the weight machine or chin ups if you can still
>do them. ;-)
>
>Dean
>