<div dir="ltr">That's true, but just above the pictures of the sold items is this note from Charles Faulk:<div>"</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Tahoma; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><ul>
<p>Dear customers: Thanks to your heavy demand for the CF tuning hammer, I'm working very hard to keep up with the production of these tools. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Almost every tuning hammer I'm making now is presold before it reaches my web site.</span></span> This is hardly a complaint. I'm very grateful for your faith and interest in this technology. Rest assured I am working ahead to provide new levers for you. In the mean time, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">if you would like something similar to the 'sold' units displayed on my site, please feel free to call or e-mail</span></span> your orders directly to me. Right now the delivery time from order placement to shipping is averaging about<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> three weeks</span></span>. Again my many thanks to all of you who have tried and liked the CF tuning hammer. I'm going back to work!</p>
<p></p><p>CF (Charles Faulk)</p></ul></span><div>"<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:32 PM, David Ilvedson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net">ilvey@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I just went online to <a href="http://www.faulkpiano.com" target="_blank">www.faulkpiano.com</a> and found every single carbon fiber hammer sold!<br>
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David Ilvedson, RPT<br>
Pacifica, CA 94044<br>
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----- Original message ----------------------------------------<br>
From: "David Andersen" <<a href="mailto:david@davidandersenpianos.com">david@davidandersenpianos.com</a>><br>
To: "Pianotech Pianotech" <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br>
Received: 9/8/2008 3:47:33 PM<br>
Subject: Pin Sensitivity; was Carbon fiber tuning lever<br>
<br>
<br>
>All this talk of stiffness and which tool is stiffer completely<br>
>misses the point.<br>
<br>
>Both the Faulk carbon fiber lever and the Fujan lever---the first I<br>
>own, the second I've used---owe their growing popularity to<br>
>their ability to allow the tuner to FEEL the pin in a much more<br>
>intimate and precise way. I've tuned many thousands of pianos, and<br>
>each time i tune I try to get better at feeling where the tuning pins<br>
>are in the block so I can stand them still, put them at rest, and<br>
>"lock them in."<br>
>These levers, through some combination of weight, carbon handle, high-<br>
>grade aluminum coupler, and quality tip, produce a much, much more<br>
>sensitive "pin feel" than other levers, even the titanium-shaft Faulk<br>
>or Bowman levers.<br>
<br>
>Here's the analogy I use in class: from where I sit now, using the<br>
>"old-school" Hale extension lever I used for the first thirty years<br>
>was like touching my beloved's face with fur-lined leather winter<br>
>gloves. The Faulk titanium lever I first used 6 years ago is like<br>
>touching her face with fine, skin-tight leather driving gloves. The<br>
>Faulk carbon-fiber lever is like touching with the finest surgical<br>
>gloves.<br>
<br>
>I find it more and more difficult to "shim" or "crack" my temperament<br>
>unisons, because my lever has allowed me to really set the pins, and<br>
>it's<br>
>hard to move a well-set pin. This bodes very well for the stability<br>
>of the tuning.<br>
<br>
>Charlie Faulk sent me one of his original carbon-fiber prototypes<br>
>over two years ago. You'd have to pry it from my cold, dead hands to<br>
>get it away from me.<br>
<br>
>David Andersen<br>
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