[CAUT] Friday vent

[Rick Florence]

We are in the process of hanging a set of these on a Steinway L here at ASU.
They (Brooks) call it Bio felt.  I'm told the felt is cleaned in a more
environmentally friendly method, which also produces a little softer felt.
Out of the box they are nice looking and seem to be less dense and more
resilient than other Abel hammers that I have seen from Brooks.  It's too
early to say what I think right now as we just chipped the piano today.
When we get this piano up and running in the next week or so, I'll give more
info.

Rick

on 10/20/06 5:10 PM, Barbara Richmond at piano57 at insightbb.com wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 6:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Friday vent
> 
> 
>> 
>>> Last weekend in Cincinnati (PTG Central East Regional Seminar), Bob
>>> Marinelli of Pianotek had some *new* Abels made with, um, un-bleached or
>>> not
>>> as purified
>>> felt.  He installed some on a new Steinway (can't remember which model)
>>> and
>>> the sound was impressive.
>> 
>> Wally Brooks showed me one of these at the TSA seminar a couple of weeks
>> ago, and said he was carrying them. I didn't get to hear them on a piano
>> though, so I can't say if they're less hard than most Abels.
>> 
>> Ron N
>> 
> 
> What's the name?
> 
> Barbara 
> 
> 

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Rick Florence
Senior Piano Technician
Arizona State University, School of Music