[pianotech] Two of My Best Tools!!

[Terry Farrell]

I've bought four really great tools in the past year or so. Besides my wonderful Fugan carbon fiber tuning lever and my I-Phone with Verituner installed on it, I bought a very small portable fan and a small flashlight that I've been searching for forever.

Pics and verbiage about fan came in the previous post.

My light. I often find that room lighting is just fine when tuning vertical pianos - except for the high treble, up past where the dampers terminate. It's often dark down there and sometimes difficult to see where I am putting my mutes. I have fiddled with trying to balance a small flashlight in the past - never very satisfactory though. So after searching every logical place, guess what I found at Walgreen's in the school supplies isle? The perfect little clip-on LED flashlight. Check it out!

The picture below has it clipped on a tuning pin - you can see how well it lights up things:

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A close-up of the little bugger clipped to a tuning pin:

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And it clips very well to the action frame bolts also - and really provides a better angle for the light:

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I don't know how long the batteries will last - they are not rechargeable - they are little disk-type batteries. Hopefully won't be too bad with it being an LED. But honestly, I don't care as this thing is just what I had been looking for for a very long time!

Terry Farrell