The tool is a tap handle, you can get one for almost every size tap body at your local home center.
I use mine more frequently than my little plastic 'turn to the left' doohickey... Chris Nogy *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/2/2007 at 10:03 AM Roy Trotter wrote: >The only time I've even seen a zither, I couldn't afford the depost for >a test drive, so it might not be the same thing but... >My knee-jerk reaction was autoharp pins. They are quite a bit larger >(in diameter) than the pins on my HG and are not tapered. The pin-head >is square, so the tuning wrench (key) might be a bit more difficult to >make than the slotted type. Might be easier to buy. I have one that sez >"Elton" on it, "Oscar Schmidt" would be another decent guess. >They seem to have a low irony index and don't get lost like Harp tuners >or a "tourne-a-gauche" ( which is so losable I keep it on a long sring >actually tied to the head of the instrument). >OK, Scott, here's the joke: So when my mom sez "You'd lose your head if >it wasn't tied on." I can say "Actually, it's glued on, The tourne- a- >gauche" is tied on"... > >She doesn't laugh either... > >There is a tool that is similar in principle to a pin vise or perhaps a >chuck, I'll have to shop around for the name of it. Anyway it has the 4 >jaws and can be adjusted a bit by screwing a threaded collar down. It >has a right angle bar running thru it. It makes a useful, but inelegant >substitute (when my harp tuner goes AWOL for awhile: It just came back >smelling like pina colada and cocoa-butter...must have had a better >time that I did...) Anyway, take my word for it, neither pliers nor a >cresson wrench works. > >Anyway good luck with the pins, I have been wondering about that >myself. The Harpsichord Solution might fit contemporary technology and >sounds do-able, but >Keep us posted.... > > >--- Barbara Currier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >Does any >one know of a resource for the "traditional" narrow tapered >> >pegs (and probably a tapered reamer as well!) used for mounting and >> >tuning sympathetic strings on old-style French hurdy-gurdies? >> > >> >~ Matt >> >> Would zither pins do? That was my husband's first response this >> morning when I asked him. >> >> Barbara >>
