Tuning levers

[SUSAN P SWEARINGEN]

Greg,

I would urge you to at least try an impact lever.  I feel I get much greater
accuracy with an impact lever since I feel I can make smaller increments
with it.  There are some great technicians that use the impact lever,
including Dean Reyburn.  Try it on your own piano (assuming you have one).
I think you will be pleasantly surprised.  I can't quite figure out why more
technicians don't use this method.

I've used the Wonderwand but for me, it flexed too much.  However, there are
a lot of people that use it and love it.  If your interested. I would
suggest bitting the bullet, buying one, and practicing with it.

Happy Holidays,

Corte Swearingen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Newell" <gnewell@ameritech.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>; <MPT@philbondi.com>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:22 PM
Subject: Tuning levers


> Greetings listees,
>          Could I please have your opinions about either the Wonderwand,
and
> "THE ORIGINAL TITANIUM TUNING HAMMER" as advertised in the Journal and the
> Japanese levers from Pianotek? I am in need of replacing my original Hale
> lever which I sheared the head off of about a month ago. I guess I really
> shouldn't leave them out in the car on cold winter nights huh? I'm keenly
> interested in the fit of the tip as was recently mentioned. Although I was
> able to find replacement shanks and heads and tip for my Hale lever
through
> Schaff they quickly stripped as the threading is not so good, to say the
> least. I saw a few at Chicago's convention but as luck would have it I
> didn't need one then. I'm leaning toward staying with an extension hammer
> as it allows some clearance of the bulk of the lever in tight plate
> configurations. This seems more prevalent in high treble areas. Any hands
> down favorites out there of these or any other levers?
>
> Greg Newell
>
> P.S. impact hammer users need not respond. That's definitely not for me!
:-)
>
> P.P.S. I concerned about available parts , i.e. tips and such.
>
> Greg Newell
> mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
>


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