Pianotech

Hi All,

The string lifting tool in the attached image is by far the most popular one with the many technicians with whom I work. If memory serves, this one was designed and made by John Hart. Haven't been able to purchase one new for a long time.

So, I was wondering if anybody has one knocking around that they would be willing to part with. If you do--or you know where I can acquire one or more--please contact me.

Thanks,

Alan

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Alan Eder, RPT
Herb Alpert School of Music
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
661.904.6483
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Original Message------

Hi All,

The string lifting tool in the attached image is by far the most popular one with the many technicians with whom I work. If memory serves, this one was designed and made by John Hart. Haven't been able to purchase one new for a long time.

So, I was wondering if anybody has one knocking around that they would be willing to part with. If you do--or you know where I can acquire one or more--please contact me.

Thanks,

Alan

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Alan Eder, RPT
Herb Alpert School of Music
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
661.904.6483
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Original Message------

Don't know where you can get one exactly like that, but you can make one from a bass string.  Just bend a hook in one end and bend the wrapped portion into a T-handle. 

--David Nereson, RPT 

Thanks to all for sharing their favorite tools for string lifting. Just for the record, we have all of these options in our arsenal. And thanks especially to Jeannie Grassi for having one of the tools for which I was actually searching, and agreeing to sell it to me.

Alan

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Alan Eder, RPT
Herb Alpert School of Music
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
661.904.6483
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-05-2017 02:56
From: Michael Gamble
Subject: string lifting tool wanted

My string lifting tool from Fletcher & Newman is like this:

  and these are still in their catalogue.        Michael    UK

Original Message------

Hi All,

The string lifting tool in the attached image is by far the most popular one with the many technicians with whom I work. If memory serves, this one was designed and made by John Hart. Haven't been able to purchase one new for a long time.

So, I was wondering if anybody has one knocking around that they would be willing to part with. If you do--or you know where I can acquire one or more--please contact me.

Thanks,

Alan

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Alan Eder, RPT
Herb Alpert School of Music
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
661.904.6483
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Hey,hey.OK you lucky dog.
Original Message:
Sent: 03-04-2017 13:41
From: Robert Highfield
Subject: string lifting tool wanted

I just took a picture of a string lifting tool to a local metal/welding shop and they made me one for a few dollars. They also took my favorite heavy weight grand tuning lever, that was bent almost into a U shape, and they straightened it out  after I was the meat in a tractor trailer sandwich and it was a victim in the trunk. Most of my other tools survived as they were thrown under the back seat but that tuning lever decided it could stand up to a tractor trailer hit. However, the tuning fork became a tuning pick. 

Bob Highfield

Lancaster, PA

Robert --

Wow! Now there's a headline story. How a tuning hammer saved this piano technicians life. More at 11.

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Geoff Sykes, RPT
Los Angeles CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-04-2017 13:41
From: Robert Highfield
Subject: string lifting tool wanted

I just took a picture of a string lifting tool to a local metal/welding shop and they made me one for a few dollars. They also took my favorite heavy weight grand tuning lever, that was bent almost into a U shape, and they straightened it out  after I was the meat in a tractor trailer sandwich and it was a victim in the trunk. Most of my other tools survived as they were thrown under the back seat but that tuning lever decided it could stand up to a tractor trailer hit. However, the tuning fork became a tuning pick. 

Bob Highfield

Lancaster, PA

The one I had made was fashioned after the string lift tool Michael showed. It has a nice handle. 

Bob Highfield

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Robert Highfield
Lancaster PA
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-04-2017 14:56
From: Geoff Sykes
Subject: string lifting tool wanted

Robert --

Wow! Now there's a headline story. How a tuning hammer saved this piano technicians life. More at 11.

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Geoff Sykes, RPT
Los Angeles CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-04-2017 13:41
From: Robert Highfield
Subject: string lifting tool wanted

I just took a picture of a string lifting tool to a local metal/welding shop and they made me one for a few dollars. They also took my favorite heavy weight grand tuning lever, that was bent almost into a U shape, and they straightened it out  after I was the meat in a tractor trailer sandwich and it was a victim in the trunk. Most of my other tools survived as they were thrown under the back seat but that tuning lever decided it could stand up to a tractor trailer hit. However, the tuning fork became a tuning pick. 

Bob Highfield

Lancaster, PA

The key feature of the one Alan is looking for is the other end of the tool which can be used to push the string down. 

Personally I really like the tool that Charles Faulk sells:

It can be very aggressive, but one of the main features I like about it is that it is the only tool I have found that effectively will push the string down. Other tools I've tried work somewhat - this one just makes it easier. It may bother some people because you are noticeably putting a kink/bend the wire. However, I believe people who don't think they are kinking/bending the string with traditional tools are fooling themselves. The kink/bend is just happening out of site where the string is leaving the agraffe or capo instead of where you can see it, which I think is more likely to cause buzzes. 

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Ryan Sowers
Olympia WA
360-705-4160
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-05-2017 09:56
From: Robert Highfield
Subject: string lifting tool wanted

The one I had made was fashioned after the string lift tool Michael showed. It has a nice handle. 

Bob Highfield

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Robert Highfield
Lancaster PA
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-04-2017 14:56
From: Geoff Sykes
Subject: string lifting tool wanted

Robert --

Wow! Now there's a headline story. How a tuning hammer saved this piano technicians life. More at 11.

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Geoff Sykes, RPT
Los Angeles CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-04-2017 13:41
From: Robert Highfield
Subject: string lifting tool wanted

I just took a picture of a string lifting tool to a local metal/welding shop and they made me one for a few dollars. They also took my favorite heavy weight grand tuning lever, that was bent almost into a U shape, and they straightened it out  after I was the meat in a tractor trailer sandwich and it was a victim in the trunk. Most of my other tools survived as they were thrown under the back seat but that tuning lever decided it could stand up to a tractor trailer hit. However, the tuning fork became a tuning pick. 

Bob Highfield

Lancaster, PA

You could make one from a screw driver by cutting the hook into the shank with a Dremel Tool.


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Regards,

Jon Page
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-07-2017 14:08
From: Ryan Sowers
Subject: string lifting tool wanted

The key feature of the one Alan is looking for is the other end of the tool which can be used to push the string down. 

Personally I really like the tool that Charles Faulk sells:

It can be very aggressive, but one of the main features I like about it is that it is the only tool I have found that effectively will push the string down. Other tools I've tried work somewhat - this one just makes it easier. It may bother some people because you are noticeably putting a kink/bend the wire. However, I believe people who don't think they are kinking/bending the string with traditional tools are fooling themselves. The kink/bend is just happening out of site where the string is leaving the agraffe or capo instead of where you can see it, which I think is more likely to cause buzzes. 

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Ryan Sowers
Olympia WA
360-705-4160
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-05-2017 09:56
From: Robert Highfield
Subject: string lifting tool wanted

The one I had made was fashioned after the string lift tool Michael showed. It has a nice handle. 

Bob Highfield

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Robert Highfield
Lancaster PA
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-04-2017 14:56
From: Geoff Sykes
Subject: string lifting tool wanted

Robert --

Wow! Now there's a headline story. How a tuning hammer saved this piano technicians life. More at 11.

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Geoff Sykes, RPT
Los Angeles CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-04-2017 13:41
From: Robert Highfield
Subject: string lifting tool wanted

I just took a picture of a string lifting tool to a local metal/welding shop and they made me one for a few dollars. They also took my favorite heavy weight grand tuning lever, that was bent almost into a U shape, and they straightened it out  after I was the meat in a tractor trailer sandwich and it was a victim in the trunk. Most of my other tools survived as they were thrown under the back seat but that tuning lever decided it could stand up to a tractor trailer hit. However, the tuning fork became a tuning pick. 

Bob Highfield

Lancaster, PA

Original Message------

The key feature of the one Alan is looking for is the other end of the tool which can be used to push the string down. 

Personally I really like the tool that Charles Faulk sells:

It can be very aggressive, but one of the main features I like about it is that it is the only tool I have found that effectively will push the string down. Other tools I've tried work somewhat - this one just makes it easier. It may bother some people because you are noticeably putting a kink/bend the wire. However, I believe people who don't think they are kinking/bending the string with traditional tools are fooling themselves. The kink/bend is just happening out of site where the string is leaving the agraffe or capo instead of where you can see it, which I think is more likely to cause buzzes. 

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Ryan Sowers
Olympia WA
360-705-4160
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That's a "coil lifting" tool as opposed to a "string lifting" tool. It's for tightening up coils on tuning pins, not pulling strings up for leveling the speaking length. 

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Ryan Sowers
Olympia WA
360-705-4160
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-08-2017 03:12
From: Michael Gamble
Subject: string lifting tool wanted

http://www.fletcher-newman.co.uk/index.php?l=product_detail&p=284

Isn't this a 'string spacing' tool? with three notches at one end? The photo is too small for me to identify such a feature.     Michael   UK