T Hammer or Tuning Lever Poll?

Colin Nicholson · Post by **Colin Nicholson** » 09 Sep 2016, 14:10

Received an unusual email asking some advice about tuning a Knight upright..
scenario.... pins very tight/ unable to be turned with BOTH hands / kept in a cold church.
uses a T hammer (and swears by it)....

Feel free to state the obvious.

Post by **Gill the Piano** » 09 Sep 2016, 15:35

Swears BY it or ABOUT it?

Colin Nicholson · Post by **Colin Nicholson** » 09 Sep 2016, 15:37

by it

Post by **vernon** » 09 Sep 2016, 18:23

T hammers were for a different age. The clue is in the "hammer" bit. Try knocking in a pin with it nowadays.
My dad,granddad and uncles all used T hammers up to the War. When new modern pianos started to creep in after. they all surreptitiously bought a lever.
What an advance the star head was

Post by **Barrie Heaton** » 09 Sep 2016, 20:12

We had to use them at college if tuning an over damper. I still have a few in the workshop but would never dream to use one on a knight I would not like to tune a modern piano with my old Steinway leaver never mind a T

Barrie

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