I continue to be skeptical that anyone who's used an impact hammer would not prefer them under most circumstances for uprights. JO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leslie Bartlett" <l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net> To: <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 12:46 PM Subject: [CAUT] in praise of impact hammers > I'm sharing a bias because it really saved me some work yesterday. Our > choir > bought a piano for the son or our organist who is promising, and lives > with > Cystic Fibrosis- so a great bunch of 20 people or so pooled resources, and > ended up with a Falcone................................. Well, it was > sooooooooooo far ahead of the Whitney spinet our organist had wrecked 30 > years ago, which was what he had to play on. > > The pins were so tight on the Falcone I feared some would break. I saw > some > LOVELY new impact hammers that Dean Rayburn is selling, at about $250 more > than I could afford, so I got the Schaff one for $75, and did some > altering. > Removed a little weight of the top, and then made a nice padded handle. > The > piano averaged 17.7 cents flat (TuneLab 2.0), and after I yanked the thing > up with the impact hammer, I actually had a fair number of "free" strings > in > the second pass. Letting the banging do the work worked nicely. I also > tuned our horrilbe Samick with it, not making a second pass, and the next > day there were only a couple of strings which had strayed. My total > experience is limited to three pianos, but I certainly think the tool has > a > valid place. It's convinced me it's marvelous at least for tight pins and > large pitch raises. > les barllett > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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