Hi Tom, Thanks for what you wrote about small movements in tuning. I will do that when tuning unisons make little tiny movements. I find it easier to overshoot a lot when a pin is loose and I'm not expecting it "whoa Im in the next zip code." I've noticed an improvement in my hand strength and forearm strength since I've been tuning and I've already had pretty strong hands from doing other physical work over the years. As for tuning hammer, I have a schaff 21C and this other one the school provided us which is a Schaff I'm guessing. Are these good hammers? I also noticed that on a grand it's easier to make th smaller movements due to the position of the hammer and my arm etc. My customer yesterday was intrigued I coudl tell about tuning, kept asking questions about piano if I played etc. So I decided to let her try tuning a unison with my supervision of course. So I put her had on the hammer handle and mine over hers so I could move the hammer. She made a comment abuot nudging the hammer, and she understood our small movements that we make and I think was amazed. Thanks so much. I still think you guys are great Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft's powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091101/f59701b9/attachment.htm>
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