That can work as well also the "pounder" made from an old hammer that some use. For me I don't like having to hold something in my hand since even during the tuning of unisons (as you go method) I'm still stretching out and testing the octave or some other interval so I don't like to have something in my hand that I have to deal with. But either way you do need to protect the joints. That's a lot of cumulative pounding adding up over the years. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Andersen Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 10:12 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Test Blows Or better than that, do what I do: use the fat, thick end of a fat, thick wool mute (the white and yellow ones) from Pianotek for the test blows. Save your hands, fingers, joints, everything. Let the felt take the beating. David Andersen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090905/f37034e7/attachment.htm>
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