Piano Tuning & Repair - Piano Tuning Hammers I HOWARD PIANO INDUSTRIES

[@unamacarana]

Thank you for your tutorials - top notch, professional, and to the point. Happy New Year !!!

[@marcus.guitarist]

7:07 good information.

[@lubamovie5841]

Thank you very much! Very helpful!

[@bjray23]

Fantastic! Huge help!

[@bryanpersaud9947]

Hi, Howard. Thank you so much for all your videos and tips! I was wondering what hammer tip would be right for a Heintzman Vertical Grand made in the late 70's, I believe? Thank you!

[@howardpianoind]

The #2 tip should work well.

[@bryanpersaud9947]

@@howardpianoind Thank you, sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar. I have called and emailed commercial businesses who don't respond as quickly and succinctly as you do to a client, let alone an unknown with an amateur question. I commend you Sir!

[@ThePupil]

I see the pins on piano's are quite short. My old cracky upright piano has quite long tapered pins. Any idea what kind of tip I should use to tune it?

[@samibouraoui4449]

thank youu !

[@lipnikysk]

thank you for this video very interesting

[@RBJawad-cj6rx]

Your videos are excellent. Thank you. About the two-piece head and tip, what is the benefit there over the one-piece head and tip? Does it have a tighter fit over the pins or something else?

[@howardpianoind]

The main difference between the two piece head and tip and the one piece head and tip is if you want to just change the tip size without changing your head angle you would want to have the two piece head and tip. Basically if you'll be changing your heads and tips often to accommodate different pianos you'll probably want to go with the two piece head and tip. I tend to use the same head and tip configuration for every piano I ever tune. Please let me know if you have any other questions.

[@RBJawad-cj6rx]

Thank you, I appreciate it.

[@ddang1009]

Very helpful

[@alexrivera.churchpianist]

Excuse me, the Lever at the minute 1:30 do not unscrew when you turn the pin counterclockwise? I read a comment on amazon with that problem with the interchangeable head.

[@howardpianoind]

It is possible if you have really tight pins that when you’re lowering the pitch that the tip could unscrew, so that is why it’s a good thing to have a tip wrench if you have a two piece head and tip.

[@alexrivera.churchpianist]

@@howardpianoind Thanks for respond. Im planned to buy a lever from your website but I don't know which one might fit my situation. Yes, some pins of my piano are a little tight. What lever do you recommend in this case? I buy some cheaper lever on ebay days ago but the lever tip got deformed after some use... Waste of money...

[@howardpianoind]

Yes, some of the tuning hammers on eBay aren’t very good quality. Any of the tuning hammers that we sell will work for you. The higher priced hammers will give you better control over the pins, but the Professional Tuning Hammer with Nylon Handle is a good one for the price.

[@alexrivera.churchpianist]

​@@howardpianoind Hi, Mr Howard, sorry to bother you again but i have another question... I already have the money for one Tuning Lever but now i want to know if any of this tips will feet on a console piano? I have a ''Kimball Artist Console'' I don't wanna make a wrong purchase.

[@howardpianoind]

Hi Alex, Yes, the standard #2 tip will fit best on the tuning pins for your Kimball piano as it will on the pins of most pianos.

[@massimilianocaruso2359]

Ciao, i need tuning hammer for my bosendorfer. which suggests to me to buy? my badget is max $ 200 included head and tip..

[@zdenkoornig6252]

Hi I would like to purchase one of your tuning hammers.

[@howardpianoind]

Thank You Zdenko, We have all of these tuning hammers available for purchase from our website: www.howardpianoindustries.com/piano-tuning-hammers/ We are able to ship to any country in the world. Please let us know if you have any questions.

[@DUKEofWAIL]

Have you thought about naming the model of the hammer while you are showing it, so the viewer could make the decision to BUY one from you?

[@monicaw3832]

The keys impact tuning hammer... does anyone else think that the fit to the pin is very loose? I kept re-watching it to see if it was just play in the lever that didn't affect where the pin goes into the socket, but every time I watched it, it looked like there is a lot of loose fit where the pin goes in the socket. I was all set to buy one of the extension levers until I saw that. But I wish he had gone through the extra time to actually put each lever on a few pins and jiggle it a little to show there is a tight fit because maybe that one example was just using a wrong size tip or something.

[@TheCylence]

You should refer to them as levers instead of hammers. You should never beat on a piano... especially with a tuning lever.

[@howardpianoind]

Yes, it is strange that they call them tuning hammers as they don't function like a hammer at all. Sometimes they are called tuning levers which is a more accurate description of what they really do. I'm not sure where the term tuning "hammer" came from.

[@ronaldware1239]

The earlier tuning method one used a T hammer due to the pins being much easier to turn. I learnt using a 'T' but had to change to a lever when piano makers drilled the plank with smaller size holes making the pin almost impossible to turn with a 'T'.

[@alext9067]

"You should never beat on a piano..." Hysterical.