your punching comments

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On 29-jan-05, at 15:53, David Love wrote:

> I appreciate your comments and I wasn=92t trying to accuse anyone of=20=

> making things up. =A0I have a colleague who has some samples of the=20
> Wurzen punchings and will loan them to me so that I can try it.=A0 My=20=

> experience with the Baldwin, in which I was able to compare a =93hard=20=

> landing=94 with a soft one made me think about it. =A0This piano was =
very=20
> evenly voiced (by me) and when I inserted a small group of punchings=20=

> in the middle of an octave so that I could test the tone in that=20
> octave I heard no difference between the old and the new.=A0 I could=20=

> feel the difference, but could not detect a change in tone.=A0 I would=20=

> have expected when playing through the notes of that scale to hear a=20=

> reduction in volume on the notes that had received the softer=20
> punching. =A0=A0I think I am a skilled enough voicer to have heard a=20=

> reduction of 5 or 10%.=A0 While the existing punchings were not the =
ones=20
> you speak of, if the reasoning for the increased loudness is a harder=20=

> landing, I would have expected the same net effect. =A0That was the=20
> reason for my inquiry.=A0 Now perhaps there is a difference with the=20=

> Wurzen punching that will not be produced by the hardened or harder=20
> Baldwin punching.=A0 I hope to find that out.=A0 But if so, at least =
from=20
> this small experiment, it seems that something else might be at work.=A0=
=20
> Not being able to answer the engineering side of that question myself=20=

> as my background is in the visual arts, music, psychology (and golf) I=20=

> was interested in what that explanation might be.=A0 =A0=A0
>
> =A0
>
> David Love
> davidlovepianos@comcast.net


Actually David, the best instrument to really test this out, and=20
especially the first time, is on a  fairly good and new instrument,=20
because the sound is still clean and easy to hear.
My advice (I think I did send you at least a sample or e set) :

Select a young Yamaha or a Steinway and do your test with Wurzen=20
punching.
 =46rom my own experience I am convinced that you will hear the =
difference.

I know you are an experienced technician, and so am I.
Nobody is bullshitting nobody here. There is too much at st(e)ake!  (;

I appreciate your public comments afterwards.

Andr=E9 Oorebeek
Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Where 'music' is no harm can be

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