Richard Brekne wrote: > > Ahh... Here we have one. 10:00 (upright I assume :) ) Lots of guys swear > by this "just shy of straight up and down" vs "just past high noon". On > the other hand I know very very many who swear by 1-2 oclock, combined > with a very consistant .. screwing inwards (tho it looks to me like they > are flagpoling in a very consisitant manner). I wonder if there is any > real hard evidence as to which position consitantly gives the best > results. Anyone want to bite on this ? > With all due respect to Newton, tuning hammer position is as personal as what tip length, head angle, etc, one prefers. If I use a 10:00 position, it's more difficult _for me_ to set the pin, so I put it closer to the 1:00 position, which also makes it easier to pull up to pitch (using the right hand). (Newton, are you left-handed?) I'm accustomed to feeling the pin in the block this way whereas if I put the lever way over to the left, I lose that feel and might as well be tuning with the other hand (almost). I think that if you did a study, you'd find that it's more of how well the tuner has developed a sensitivity to the lay of the tuning pin in the block and less of the tuning hammer's position that's important. Tom -- Thomas A. Cole, RPT Santa Cruz, CA mailto:tcole@cruzio.com
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