[CAUT] Weikert felt; was 80 year old S&S hammers

[Alan McCoy]

I'm beginning to learn however that talk about hammer felt has to be in
context of what kind of board it is attempting to move.

Alan


-- Alan McCoy, RPT
Eastern Washington University
amccoy at ewu.edu
509-359-4627
509-999-9512


> From: Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu>
> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org>
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:25:01 -0600
> To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Weikert felt; was 80 year old S&S hammers
> 
> Thanks Ed.
> 
> JB
> 
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> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Weikert felt; was 80 year old S&S hammers
> 
> Jim asks: 
> << So, is this just another hammer option, or is this a "home run! You
> gotta try these!"? What would you put them on? Concert instruments,
> everything? 
>>> 
> 
>        I don't know what different venues would like,  I know that these
> hammers will never satisfy the record producers in Nashville, who like a
> crashy, bright sound.  I have them on a 1927 M and it has that full, round
> sound 
> that I have heard before from original Mason & Hamlins.  The malleability of
> the tone is what is attractive to me; the pianissimo is big and round, and
> with increasing force, the brilliance begins to appear.  New, the hammers
> are too soft for full range, but I suspect that with play, they will have the
> magic combination.  I am not scared to harden them if needed, but I really
> want to put a few sets in the school's heavy use rooms and see if they don't
> wake up all by themselves.
> Regards, 
> 
> 
> 
> Ed Foote RPT 
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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