Renner Blues and Ronsen Wurzen

[Tom Servinsky]

Ray Negron at Ronsen Hammers, a great guy to do business with.  If you do
make the order may I suggest asking for the soft white maple core instead of
the mahogany core. It's a tad lighter and will help with touch weight.
Also since they do all of the production at their facility you can specify
for a longer tail ( Steinway in particular) if needed.
Tom Servinsky
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bec and John" <bjsilva001@comcast.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: Renner Blues and Ronsen Wurzen


>
> 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
>
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