[pianotech] Carbon Fiber Lever (was Hammer Technique: was Q & A Roundtable)

[David Nereson]

It's not the hammer that requires changing tips, it's the pianos 
with their high plate struts, different size pins, overhangs, 
etc. !
    --D.N.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ross" <jrpiano at eastlink.ca>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Carbon Fiber Lever (was Hammer 
Technique: was Q & A Roundtable)


>I wouldn't like a hammer that required changing tips all the 
>time.
> I have a Tuners Supply hammer with a #2 tip, and can't 
> remember the last time I changed a tip.
> I do have a thin walled tip on a tip adaptor that has a square 
> head for the odd too close pin situation.
> I have another Tuners Supply hammer with the long tip for 
> grands.
> I have used them both since the late 70's.
> I tried other hammers briefly at the conventions, but never 
> felt the need to upgrade.
> John Ross
> Windsor, Nova Scotia
> On 2011-02-07, at 1:41 PM, David Nereson wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> <<Reply to Keith and Kurt.,
>>   Kurt,
>> <<. . . . . .    The trade off if any ,  is in the ability to 
>> use your existing collection of heads and tips along with 
>> easy site lines and plate clearance .. . . . . . .>>
>>
>>
>>        This is what I've heard as well.  I assume you're 
>> referring to the Fujan.   I find myself having to change tips 
>> and heads all the time -- almost every day.  Either there's a 
>> high plate strut or a pronounced overhang on the top rim of 
>> an upright's plate, or the pins are impossibly close together 
>> in the low tenor (Wurtilizer spinets) and I have to change to 
>> the thin-wall tip, or the thing's been re-pinned with #5's, 
>> etc.
>>   --David Nereson, RPT
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