"Bumping" is not impact tuning. Give the impact hammer a try -- long enough to learn a bit of control with it. Otto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Tanner" <jtanner@mozart.sc.edu> To: <l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net>; "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] in praise of impact hammers > > On Monday, July 25, 2005, at 03:46 PM, Leslie Bartlett wrote: > > > The pins were so tight on the Falcone I feared some would break. > > See, this is exactly where I would think the impact hammer would be > more likely to break tight pins than a standard hammer. > > I just can't imagine having the same control. I have no control trying > to "bump" the tuning hammer with tight pins. All that usually happens > is that the pin twists, the string renders, but the pin does not budge > in the block and everything goes right back south with a few sharp test > blows. > > We have a faculty member here who bought an impact hammer years ago > when he worked for a music store out west. I'll see if he'll let me > borrow it to try. > > Jeff T > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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