Ed: I haven't seen a Ronsen Bacon felt hammer for a long time but that's what I understand also that the Bacon felt is softer. My experience with the Wurzen AA felt ones has been very good. The denser felting doesn't pack like softer hammers, yet if they get bright needles penetrate quite easily. I don't have an electron microscope so my observations are very unscientific but the Wurzen felt seems just more dense from the felting process rather than the hammer pressing process. >From what I heard of the testing on a new Walter grand, the Bacon felt was better on the very live sounding board assembly. On most sounding boards that we see the Bacon felt needs some hardener. Try a set of the Wurzen AAs I think you'll really like them. dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of A440A at aol.com Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:35 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] My take on them, (was The "new" S&S Hammers). Hi David I would recommend trying a set of the Ronsen Wurzen hammers. I think they'll work well with your approach to voicing. I think I am going to do just that. I spoke with Roger Jolly recently and he mentioned that the Bacon felt hammers from Ronsen were softer,and would need some hardener in the extreme ends, but the AA wurzen felt was harder. Do you have experience with these two different hammers? Thanks for the note, Ed Ed Foote RPT ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070914/af47ab14/attachment.html
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