This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment More than twenty years ago, I decided to use an impact hammer = exclusively for three days, to see if I could get used to it. I=92ve used it ever = since. Mine came from Schaff, and has a weight that can be adjusted to any of several positions along the shaft. I use my impact hammer to tune all verticals from spinets to full-size uprights. Tuning doesn=92t get any easier; I love it. Ross White =20 _____ =20 From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On = Behalf Of Farrell Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 2:58 AM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: Tuning Hammers.....How Many? =20 My impact lever is a Mahaffey (sp?) -type. I forget whether I got it = from Schaff or Pianotek - I think Schaff - it is not in the catalog, you have = to ask for it. It is the type of lever originally recommended (several = years ago) by Mitch Keil (sp?) of Reyburn Cybertuner. Mitch gave a class at a convention (several years ago) on how to modify that lever for improved performance. I modified mine a little bit by adding felt padding and covering the whole thing with rubber tape (I can't find his handout from = the class).=20 =20 I see now that Reyburn offers custom impact levers. I have not used = these, but can only assume that they are the cat's meow in the impact lever = world. Mitch uses an impact lever exclusively for all his tuning. I only use = mine for pitch raises on tight-pinned uprights. I see that Reyburn advertises that his levers have less of a weight on the end and that most levers = are too heavily weighted. I have no doubt that is true - likely the reason I find it difficult to use my lever on many uprights and especially for = fine tuning - exactly what he says the trouble is with most impact levers. However, I suspect my heavily weighted lever is exactly what you might = want for pitch-raising tight-pinned uprights. =20 I've been tempted for a while now to order one of his levers. I see also that he offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. Might be a good way to go. Give Mitch a call - no doubt he will be able to make your head spin with impact lever talk! =20 http://www.reyburn.com/cyberhammer.html =20 Terry Farrell ----- Original Message -----=20 From: David Ilvedson <mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net> =20 OK, speaking of impact wrenches...a couple of days ago I was tuning a = lot of uprights at Stanford and I began fiddling around with my new Faulk = hammer, using like an impact tuning wrench. Of course very little throw but I = was able to get a feel for what an impact wrench might be like...SO, I'm = going to get one. Let me have it with why your impact tuning hammer is the = best. I definitely want a very small throw (I mean movement from side to the other) or adjustable if possible. =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c9/bb/98/81/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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