[CAUT] Hammer wear

[Porritt, David]

I've been happy with the voicing stability with the Wurzens but I've
only had them for this school year.  I can generally tell without even
going in a practice room if a piano is getting too bright. The students
tend to take the music desk off, close the short lid and put the music
desk on the short lid.  We just got a $500,000 donation to redo all of
our practice rooms this summer to reduce sound transfer from room to
room and to make the rooms acoustically better (better air flow and
climate control too.)  It will be interesting to see how that will
change the perception of voicing in those little rooms.  It's going to
make for a chaotic summer though!  

 

dp

 

David M. Porritt

dporritt at smu.edu

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Wolfley, Eric (wolfleel)
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:58 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Hammer wear

 

Hmmm, very interesting. I'll have to closely watch the Wurzens. If your
pianos are getting equal play and showing little wear, maybe the Wurzens
are the ticket for practice rooms. How is the stability of voicing?
Another thing I like about the Steinway hammers is how they need little
attention after the initial voicing.

 

Eric

 

Eric Wolfley, RPT 
Head Piano Technician 
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music 
University of Cincinnati 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Porritt, David
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:45 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Hammer wear

 

Eric:

 

Yes these are on Steinways.  We just have 10 locked rooms for piano
performance majors and they are all Steinways (5 Ms, 4 Ls and 1B).  They
get constant, hard use.  I don't think there could be an hour a day
difference in the use as we really need more rooms and they are used
hard all day.  I've not only been pleased with the durability of the
Wurzens but kind of shocked!

 

I'm no authority on NY Steinway hammers as the only pianos that have
them are new ones.  When those wear out they are replaced with Renner
Blues in the past, or Ronsen Wurzens now.  Out of 37 Steinways that we
have, only 7 still have NY hammers.  

 

dp

 

David M. Porritt

dporritt at smu.edu

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