<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name="country-region"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink="#606420"> <div class=Section1> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From:</spa= n> Michael Gamble [mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk] Sent: 14 September 2005 = 15:16 To: 'Susan Kline' Subject: RE: New Tuning = Hammer<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> Hello Susan and List<o:p></o:p> I only use levers on uprights (verticals) on all = pianos that lie-down-flat I use a ‘T’ hammer. I have a whole bunch of = those for square pianos ‘cos some of the squares are dated late 1700’s = when the tuning pins were hand made and no two were of the same dimension! = Great fun!, Most en-joy-a-ble! I agree they can be a back pain – = particularly when the pins are right at one end (the bass end) in a bunch. I am left = handed, you see, so quite a bit of cross-hand-boogie is required!  Some = have their pins along the spine then I have to find some antique chair to open the = top lid on to. For this is usually in a museum and frequently there are visitors hanging around asking questions…. <o:p></o:p> Regards from sunny <st1:place = w:st="on"><st1:country-region = w:st="on">Sussex</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></fo= nt> Michael <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From:</spa= n> Susan Kline [mailto:skline@peak.org] Sent: 14 September 2005 = 07:08 To: Pianotech Subject: RE: New Tuning = Hammer<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> At 07:14 AM = 9/14/2005 +0100, you wrote:<o:p></o:p> there’s too few positions you can use on an = oblong pin – both at 180deg. To each other.<o:p></o:p> Hello, Michael. I have a system for dealing with the oblong pins, though it's been = awhile since I agreed to tune a square. They are awfully hard on one's back. = The supply houses (at least over here) have a little extender to use = when grand struts are too tall for your normal lever and tip to reach the = first row of pins. One end looks like a tuning pin top, and the other is = threaded to accept a normal tuning tip. I just put my oblong tuning tip on it. Then when tuning a square, I just = pick it up, and move it by hand to the next tuning pin. Since the top is = square like a normal tuning pin, my ordinary tuning hammer, with all 8 = positions available due to the star tip, will fit over it at whatever = angle I choose. It is all a little bit tippy, but it does work. It lives in the flannel bag with my tip wrench and other tuning tips -- = you know, the bag which should live in the car, but which I use to hold my kit down in case of hurricanes. Susan<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>