Items in your tuning kits that you would not be caught without?

[ryan sowers]

Chopstick style voicing tool

Hypo Bottle of protek

Alligator forcepts (I love these things for removing
objects from inside upright actions or off of grand
soundboards. They're so cute too!)

Flexible shaft LED light

"Voice grips" patterned after Bill Spurlocks modified
vice-grips.

Piece of aluminum angle about 8" long for supporting
upright hammers during reshaping, it makes a good
straight-edge, I also use it to hold the hammers in
uprights close to the strings for setting let-off
using the "click" method.)

I also bring a copy of Cromby's book "The Piano",
Fine's Piano Book and lates supplement, and Dear Dr.
Piano by Ken Burton. I set these out for folk to look
through-they can learn about the piano without
distracting me with too many questions. 

These are a few of my favorite things...


--- Alan <tune4u@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 12" long phillips & straight screwdrivers
> long straight screwdriver with small head (for
> damper block screws,
> etc.)
> lid prop
> thick & thin felt strip mutes
> 4 grand mutes
> 2 "regular" stick mutes
> 1 very skinny stick mute (used at the tenor break
> and, usually, on the
> treble notes that have dampers)
> Red Devil 5-In-One painting tool (used for scraping,
> prying, removing
> felts, removing keytops--absolutely indispensable,
> to me)
> small flashlight
> telescoping magnetic pick-up
> "grabber" type screw starter
> jack holder-downer-spring-thingy
> electronic humidity/temperature meter (wanna sell
> some Dampp-Chasers?)
> piece of tool box drawer liner (used as a protective
> mat when laying
> tools down on a nice finish)
> roll-up regulating kit
> looooong pair of big tweezers
> short-handled paint brush (for dusting off bridges,
> etc.) and a
> reasonably clean rag
>  
> Everything else is in the truck. And I mean
> EVERYTHING--including
> tilter, supply of CA, key carrying clamps, action
> cradle, etc., etc.
>  
> I work in a very rural area and travel up to two
> hours to some clients.
> I don't want any extra trips if I can avoid them.
>  
> Alan R. Barnard
> Salem, MO
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Bazemore [mailto:tunericks@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 2:27 PM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Items in your tuning kits that you would
> not be caught without?
> 
> 
> List,
>  
> Please list those items which you find indispensable
> for regular tuning
> calls (other than pitch source & tuning hammer). 
> Please also state it's
> most common applications.
>  
> Rick Bazemore
> 
> 
> 
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Ryan Sowers, RPT  Puget Sound Chapter
Pianova Piano Service
Olympia, WA


		
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