Key Whakker

Farrell mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 22:39:43 -0500


I made myself a key whacker a month or two ago after I developed some
tendonitis in my left arm (key whacking arm for tuning). I took two grand
bass hammers (Yamaha) and epoxied them together end-to-end. Seems to work
great. Gotta watch how hard you hit some keys though.

Anyone else use such an apparatus or something similar like a padded dowel
or such? Did the sore arm thing go away? What has been anyone else's
experience?

I have pictures is anyone is interested.

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com



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