elbow pain

[Elian Degen J.]

Even more, I would say that learning to tune with both hands should be a
must

I am right handed, when I started tuning lessons my father forced me to
learn using both hands Right for Grands and Left for uprights.

After getting used to this. I never had nerve or muscle problems in my
tuning life (38 years counting training years)

Elian
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry J Messerly <prescottpiano@juno.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: elbow pain


Another good reason to tune vertical pianos left handed.
Larry the leftie who was able to learn to tune grands rightie.

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:46:17 +0100 Kristinn Leifsson
<istuner@islandia.is> writes:
>
> You´re American, why don´t you prosecute the piano maker?
>
> Or try tuning the last few notes in the treble with the tuning
> hammer in
> the 9.30 position.
>
> Maybe you just hit the brachial nerve, but then again you might have
> a
> humeral fracture.  What´s the range of possible motion, in degrees?
>
>
> Kristinn Leifsson,
> Reykjavík, Iceland
>
> P.S. Are there any piano tuners turned doctors out there or vice
> versa
>
>
> At 13:51 24.4.2000 PDT, you wrote:
> >I must be accident prone! I keep banging my right elbow against the
> right
> >inside edge of verticals when I get to the high treble, and today I
> bumped
> >it so hard that I let out a wail that must've been heard for miles!
> I keep
> >trying to remind myself to SLOW down and be aware of the proximity
> of my
> >elbow to the edge of the piano, but i still manage to smack it at
> least once
> >a week. It feels like I may have fractured it this time. I think I
> will
> >start wearing an elbow pad!
> >
> >
> >Terry Peterson
> >Los Angeles, CA
> >Associate Member, PTG
> >
>
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Larry Messerly, RPT
Phoenix/Prescott