It's no "mystery", these tuning hammers are tops! Terry Peterson Accurate Piano Service UniGeezer.com "Over 50, and not "2" Tired!" From: davidlovepianos at comcast.net To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:04:45 -0800 Subject: Re: [pianotech] Faulk tuning hammers And, I forgot to mention, the pronunciation from the French would be more in keeping with uh-grahf’ (French style “r”). But since there are many French words used in English that don’t resemble the French pronunciation I’m not to offended by a’(as in lay)-graph. Murky buckets. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Love Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:00 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Faulk tuning hammers >From the French agrafe but I believe that agraffe is an accepted variant, fwiw David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Delwin D Fandrich Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:45 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Faulk tuning hammers Umm, generally that will be spelled “agrafes.” That’s with one “f.” ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA fandrich at pianobuilders.com Phone 360.736.7563 From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:27 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Faulk tuning hammers That's funny. I can't imagine David having a pet peeve; I thought he liked them all equally. And just for the record, if you buy a box of staples that has any other language specifications like Spanish or French, in the French description you'll see staples called , umm, uh-graffes. Cool, eh? Paul _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091218/d70ccf46/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: columbo.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 163922 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091218/d70ccf46/attachment-0001.jpg>
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