The term "Tuning Hammer"??

[Farrell]

 I have a lovely Keith Bowman/Renner tuning lever. Now I'm going to have 
nightmares!

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> When a unison needs to be aligned to its hammer, rather than fish out a
> separate hammer for tapping the string spacing tool, I just use the
> "hammer" end of the tuning hammer.
> Once in a while a balance rail pin (key pin) will work its way out of the
> balance rail, sticking way up above the key button, and I'll tap it back
> in with the tuning hammer.  [I know, I know, but this is a cheap spinet
> that only gets tuned every 7 years.]
> If it weren't a "nice" tool that you don't want to bang up, you could
> also use it for driving tuning pins by placing it on the pin to be driven
> in, then hitting the rear flat surface with some other hammer, but then
> they make a special tool for that.  But in a pinch (?) . . . .
> --David Nereson, RPT
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