---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Ric, I have not found that the Renner AA Blue's needing that amount of needling. Wow you must be getting much harder hammers. Regards Roger At 04:24 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: >Nothing really magical here Mark. Traditional voicing proceedures work >best with Wurzen felt pressed at reasonable levels. You should have to >open up the hammers a bit in the middle sections, tho you shouldnt have to >deal with any draconian needling proceedures. Usually somewhere between >20-40 deep needling stabs (with 3 needles in your tool) stagered up and >down the shoulders is enough to get a fine basic first voice. >Usually you end up with most of your needling in the midbass through the >tenor and into the C5-C6 octave area. Lowest bass may need a bit of >juice, and the highest range (at least from F7 upwards) usually always >needs a bit of help. > >Get ahold of Andre for some very good specifics advice on needling. But in >general your first voicing is about opening up the hammers for power and >the basic tone picture you are after. Not much is done up close to the >crown. Reshaping and mating is done, along with any string leveling >needed before going on to the second voicing. I find it nice to wait over >nite after the first voicing anyways. > >Cheers >RicB > > >Greetings - >I have installed my first set of Wurzen hammers - from Ray - and am quite >pleased with >the results. I have read numerous posts indicating that in most cases >little or no voicing is required except for doping the extreme high >treble, but in this case >- an M & H "B" - I find that the tenor and low treble need opened up a >fair amount. >Knowing that there is inherently something different about the way this >felt is formed >I thought it prudent to check with those experienced in voicing these >hammers if traditional voicing techniques apply. >Anything uniquely specific about voicing this felt? >Thanks! >Mark Potter > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ab/74/58/d3/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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