It's not the hammer that requires changing tips, it's the pianos with their high plate struts, different size pins, overhangs, etc. ! --D.N. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Ross" <jrpiano at eastlink.ca> To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Carbon Fiber Lever (was Hammer Technique: was Q & A Roundtable) >I wouldn't like a hammer that required changing tips all the >time. > I have a Tuners Supply hammer with a #2 tip, and can't > remember the last time I changed a tip. > I do have a thin walled tip on a tip adaptor that has a square > head for the odd too close pin situation. > I have another Tuners Supply hammer with the long tip for > grands. > I have used them both since the late 70's. > I tried other hammers briefly at the conventions, but never > felt the need to upgrade. > John Ross > Windsor, Nova Scotia > On 2011-02-07, at 1:41 PM, David Nereson wrote: > >> >> >> >> <<Reply to Keith and Kurt., >> Kurt, >> <<. . . . . . The trade off if any , is in the ability to >> use your existing collection of heads and tips along with >> easy site lines and plate clearance .. . . . . . .>> >> >> >> This is what I've heard as well. I assume you're >> referring to the Fujan. I find myself having to change tips >> and heads all the time -- almost every day. Either there's a >> high plate strut or a pronounced overhang on the top rim of >> an upright's plate, or the pins are impossibly close together >> in the low tenor (Wurtilizer spinets) and I have to change to >> the thin-wall tip, or the thing's been re-pinned with #5's, >> etc. >> --David Nereson, RPT > >
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