Needling Technique? obliterized felt

[Ron Nossaman]

>    Hhhhmmmmmmm
>   I 'm with you ( whoever you are)on the abels.  I have heard and voiced
>several sets with mixed results( some very good some not even  satisfactory)
>Honestly what is the purpose of making them so bloody hard to begin with?
>My unsoliceted advice is to lighten up on the steam when pressing them up to
>begin with . Needlling felt is fine and normal, jack hammering it is not! It
>makes no sense to me to have to be oblidged to obliterate the
>elt( especially the treble) to get tone.
>     We should form a new commettee to lokk into this.  Yeah ,I know ,we'll
>call it the hammer police commitee
>         Yawn..........
>   Dale Erwin

Hi Dale,
I was the dissenting vote on the wonderfulness of Abels this round. Most
everyone I've talked to just loves them, which prompted my giving them a
try. Hard hard hard. Gotta make 'em hard so they'll sound like a new piano,
I guess.


Ron N