This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I think I do understand. The issue isn=92t so much pianos out of the factory where things may be working well. My point had as much to do with soundboards that left the factory 100 years ago. But I think = it=92s enough on this point. The expression spinning wheels was not aimed at you personally, it simply means that the discussion is going nowhere. =20 David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net=20 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of antares Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:57 PM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: spinning wheels =20 On 1-okt-04, at 0:23, David Love wrote: That's fine, but a Yamaha requires a fairly dense hammer because of the way the soundboard is designed. There are many pianos that have quite a different set up and whose hammer needs will be different.=20 In that case I think you don't really understand me. I am certainly not as you say "spinning wheels", why should I be spinning wheels David?. I have been voicing grand pianos almost every day for many years. That's how I found out about the different hammer shapes for different types of grands. Because I spent almost all of my professional life I also invested a lifetime in developing my thoughts about hammers and I was among the first techs here being aware of the return of the once so gorgeous Wurzen felt that almost every factory in the world used, at that time. Heck, even Ray Negron told us here that his father too used Wurzen. It is not for nothing that most factories today use Wurzen again and that we too have been working exclusively with that stuff. But enough of this wheel spinning, I wish happiness to all hammer makers and equal happiness to all hammer users. This is not a contest and hah! I have certainly no investments in the Wurzen factory.=20 All I wished to say here is that every soundboard sound improves mightily with Wurzens provided the shape is right, the hammers have been voiced in a proper way, and that the way the action plays is not ruined by kilo's of hammer felt, as some here think is such a miracle. But, let each find out for him/herself, I have said more than enough already. Andr=E9 Oorebeek David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net=20 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of antares Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:13 AM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: Evidence of overlacquered hammers On 30-sep-04, at 19:53, David Love wrote: I think you misunderstand me. Of course you can ruin the tone by a=20 poor quality of poorly voiced hammer. In your case, clearly the tone was there waiting to come out with a decent hammer. That is not always the case. I think we are spinning our wheels here. David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net No David, I clearly understood you. The instrument I mentioned was a low life 'older Yamaha' G3. The AA Wurzen hammers (made by Renner) gave it a completely new=20 dimension. I had exactly the very same experience with a younger C3 about 10 years=20 old. Not a very bad one, not a very good one. I installed our AA Wurzen covered hammers and they altered the=20 instrument. It almost sounded German. hah! Andr=E9 Oorebeek _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives Andr=E9 Oorebeek ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/fc/f6/93/7e/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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