[pianotech] Carbon Fiber Lever (was Hammer Technique: was Q & A Roundtable)

[John Ross]

Changing tips, is changing tips, I don't care why.
I just said that with the two hammers I have, I seldom, in fact less than 5 times in 35 years, have I needed to change tips.
I wasn't thinking the hammers needed the tips changed because they 'broke'.
I can see you thought other than I meant.
John Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia
On 2011-02-08, at 3:39 AM, David Nereson wrote:

> 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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