Andrew,
To do some bullet needling in the base of the shoulders. Deep needling in the lower part, and then gradually start working your way up. You want to feel the felt responding to your needles. Depending on what solution you used, and hopefully not an intense solution, you should be able to get the felt to respond. Follow with a good hammer filing, making sure that you leave no "orange peel" parts of the previous layers to be left on. Follow by a good 200 grit strip and get the crown nice and clean and the tone should respond nicely.
Feel free to contact me privately for more advice.
Tom Servinsky
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Anderson
To: Pianotech List
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: The all new Weickert felt hammer by Ronsen
Dale,
I have a 1942 Everett 9' C.oncert G.rand. We liked it OK in a little room with the Wurzens but I have customers looking at it and there were balance problems. I don't like how the wurzens turned out with juicing. I'll do some more needling and decide if they are retrievable or not. Otherwise I'm caught between Abel Naturals and now these Weickerts. The wurzens had a beautiful round tone that was just too far away. Juicing them definitely brought out the power but we lost the full tone.
After getting the hammer situation remedied I may look into wapinizing.
Andrew Anderson
On Oct 14, 2008, at 6:39 PM, erwinspiano at aol.com wrote:
Hi Andrew
Sorry. What's a CG?
Do you mean CD as in concert dept.? What have you done to the AA Wurzen felt so far. What is the pianos size and acoustic environment?
SO many factors at play
Dale
Thanks,
I've got some wurzens to replace, not enough cajones for this CG.
Andrew
On Oct 14, 2008, at 1:31 PM, David Andersen wrote:
I'll be putting a set in our next piano---an old Kawai as well---but the sample Wurzen-Weickert felt, "hybrid" hammers as described in the
announcement that Dale installed on two notes (C4 and G5) of the Steingraeber 168 grand we used in our class in Chicago over the weekend were, straight out of the box, much punchier than the AAA Wurzen Ronsens, and much fatter and less clangy than Abel naturals---again, all three sets right out of the box. Just my initial take.....
David Andersen
On Oct 14, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Andrew Anderson wrote:
How do these compare to Abel Naturals? Or the Wurzen AAA felt hammers from Ronson?
Andrew Anderson
On Oct 14, 2008, at 9:09 AM, AlliedPianoCraft wrote:
Dale!!!!
Now you've gotten me all excited!
I'll have to go and find a piano that needs new hammers.
Al Guecia
From: erwinspiano at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:40 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: The all new Weickert felt hammer by Ronsen
I wanted to announce this exciting bit of news here first.
Sincerely
Dale Erwin
Ronsen Piano Hammer Company announces
the New Weickert felt limited edition piano hammer.
Exclusively produced in America by the Ronsen Hammer Co.
The Wurzen felt company of Germany has just reintroduced the legendary Weickert felt. This felt was prized by hammer piano makers for its resilience & tonal versatility.
Weickert felt was in use by many famous makers for nearly 90 years before WW-II forced the plant to be shut down. All old N.Y. Steinways as well as many other American and European companies used this felt.
When the Berlin Wall came down, the Jack Brand family of Canada purchased the facility and in 1992 began felt production with all the original equipment and felt making formulas still intact! Wurzen makes a host of piano felts for the industry and its products are marketed and used worldwide.
Now the Famous Weickert felt piano hammer has been recreated. It is a dense,springy felt that provides a rich palette of tonal coloration to the musician and technician.
Ronsen-made Weickert felt hammers elicit enormous sustain and tonal clarity from the very first moment - and these attributes are present without pre-needling. A simple probing of these hammers with a single #6 needle reveals a wonderful dense feel, and the needles go all the way in with a beautiful feel of velvety compliance.
The Weikert-style felt by Wurzen utilizes a special proprietary blend of wools as did the original formulas.
The reduction of protocols known to damage felt fibers in production, such as over-bleaching, pressing, ironing and sanding have all been reduced or in large part eliminated, leaving an absolutely beautiful organic hammer. The felt even smells alive!
The Weickert felt's density, elasticity and strength are left intact and are the vital and necessary ally of discriminating voicing technicians.
Weickert felt, combined with the time-tested traditional hammer-making protocols of Ronsen's Ray Negron, has now produced one of the finest piano hammers ever available.
Available October 23 thd. Order now.
Priced at $330.00 for 16 lb. felt
Priced at $315 for the 14 lb. felt
Introductory price of $299.00
Boring extra
For purchases, services, molding and other felt options call Dale Erwin, Ronsen's new West Coast supplier, at Erwin Piano Restoration at 209-577-8397 Pacific West coast time. For voicing and technical support, call either Dale or Ray Negron at Ronsen at 1-800-864-0233 East Coast time.
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