Renner Blues and Ronsen Wurzen

[Bec and John]

Hi Phil and Tom,

Thanks for the replies and information! Where can one get these Wurzen 
hammers from?

- John


> Soft and hard are relative terms.  I like soft hammers, so the type of
> hammers that I use might be categorized by others as very soft and
> soft.  It's a matter of perspective.  On a scale of 1 - 10, with 1 
> being a
> marshmallow and 10 being granite, I would say that the hammers that I 
> like
> to use are in the 2 - 6 range; the Steinway hammers being 2 - 3, 
> depending
> on the set you get, and the Renner Blues being 6.  I think of the 
> Blues as
> 'hard' hammers, because I have to voice them down, as opposed to a soft
> hammer that I have to voice up.  But they're not hard at all compared 
> to
> other types of Renner hammers or many Asian hammers.  Renner USA bills 
> them
> as mellow sounding hammers formulated for old American pianos.  They're
> mellow compared to the typical Renner hammers that we used to see here 
> a
> few years ago, but I wouldn't describe them as soft.  I tend to think 
> of
> them as somewhat 'punchy/bright', but once again that's within the 
> range of
> hammers that I tend to work with.  As with any hammer, I find that they
> work well on certain pianos, less well on others.  And they give a
> different sort of sound than a really soft hammer like a Steinway or
> Ronsen/Bacon, even if they were voiced way up, so they also give me 
> the ability
> to create a different kind of sound for people that want it.  I don't
> personally like them on Steinways.  But I have put them on a couple of
> Steinways for clients that wanted a more agressive sound.  They were 
> very
> pleased with the results.  This stuff is a matter of personal taste.
>
> Phil Ford