[CAUT] Mythbusters

[William Monroe]

In all fairness, and with all due respect, I've never found voicing NY S&S
hammers that difficult.  Different, yes, but difficult, no.  Same goes for
the action mounted sostenuto - again, different, but not difficult.  Now,
cheek blocks that allowed fallboard removal without block removal, or fine
adjustment screws.....that'd be nice.

Another change that was proposed last time I was in NY was keeping the habit
of NY Repetitions to have two different gauge springs (one for bass/tenor, a
thinner one for the treble), rather than the four different sizes found
(still?) in Hamburg.

William R. Monroe





On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:36 PM, David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Ulrich could not be tickled about voicing NY hammers day after day...no
> way!
>
> David Ilvedson, RPT
> Pacifica, CA  94044
>
> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
> From: "Greg Granoff" <Gregory.Granoff at humboldt.edu>
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Received: 3/8/2010 2:22:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Mythbusters
>
>
> >Yes, Ulrich made it pretty clear that with a German president in charge,
> >there would be many other changes ultimately besides sostenuto
> installation.
> >He seemed downright tickled at the coming changes, though my impression
> from
> >the conversation was that they were definitely not trying to homogenize
> the
> >sounds of the two instruments.  In addition to sost stuff, I think we can
> >look for Hamburg style end blocks with their multiple adjustment screws
> and
> >rollers for the end pins rather than our crude little NY plates.
>
> >Greg
>
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