[CAUT] impact hammer, Wurlitzer piano

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Uniplate
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Bartlett" <l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:42 PM
Subject: [CAUT] impact hammer, Wurlitzer piano


> Two totally unrelated subjects......
>
> Can someone with a good understanding of impact hammers and stability
> explain to me how to "get stability" and "recognize it", using an impact
> hammer?  Please feel free to mail me off-list.  It's a different animal
than
> a regular hammer, I know, but I can't quite figure how to figure it
> out........
>
>
> I tuned the tightest "pin block" I have ever seen today. It was so bad
that
> when I finished my muscles were just beginning to cramp....    It was a
1930
> Wurlitzer baby grand, and when I put the hammer on the first pin I was
> simply shocked. No Baldwin was ever this tight............   It was quite
by
> accident that I discovered there was no pinblock, but this was using the
> plate as the block. The tuning pins were slotted from the bottom, each
> having a wedge driven into the slot, much like a wedge is driven into the
> handle of a "regular hammer" to hold the handle on by the outward pressure
> caused by the wood.   Does anyone on the list know the history of this
> notion, how it started, why it ended.  It was utterly fascinating to tune.
> Couple loose pins, I simply tapped the wedge a bit tighter.  There would
be
> no wearing out, though it was tough on the muscles.........
>
> thanks for any info.
> les bartlett
>


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