[CAUT] Weikert felt --was: Chopstick tool needles?

[Paul T Williams]

I'm sold on Wally's Abel Naturals!  Very predictable and easy to work with 
after taking his all day seminar. Sure, our 56 Baldwin D is pretty good, 
but it took much more work than the Abels do.

Paul




From:
Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu>
To:
"caut at ptg.org" <caut at ptg.org>
Date:
11/20/2010 02:30 PM
Subject:
Re: [CAUT] Weikert felt --was: Chopstick tool needles?



Susan,
 
Rick Baldassin just put them on a rebuilt 7’ Baldwin and showed how to 
voice them in the last chapter technical. It’s hard to express how good 
they sounded without sounding like I’m over-the-top lying. Everyone there 
was impressed. Now, this was in Rick’s store with a lot of new top end 
pianos; Fazioli, Schimmel, Steinway, etc. and this Baldwin sounded great! 
After almost one year of experience with them (8 sets) I’m certainly not 
going back to anything else. But let’s see how they are in 5 years. I 
think they’ll fair well, but we beat up hammers here…
 
Best,
Jim
 
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of 
Susan Kline
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 10:04 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Weikert felt --was: Chopstick tool needles?
 
Ji, Ed, this is very good news, both for piano tone 
and (eventually) for the budgets of our various institutions. 

Do you think these hammers would be suitable for a 1934 
seven-foot Baldwin grand (still with a very nice board)? 
Mine is ready for new hammers. 

Susan Kline


On 11/19/2010 4:45 AM, Jim Busby wrote: 
Ed,
 
The new “Blue Point” hammers (Renner, with Weikert felt) look and feel 
nearly identical to some 80 year old hammers that were on a D I saw and 
wrote about last year. They indeed have more resilience and need less 
voicing maintenance. I’ve worked on several Weikert felt hammers, but 
these are different than any of them. If they last 80 years it wouldn’t 
surprise me a bit. I like this “new” (old) era!
 
Jim Busby
 
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ed 
Sutton
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 6:52 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Chopstick tool needles?
 
Susan-
 
We may be entering a new (old) era, with the return of Weikert and Abel 
Natural hammer felts.
These hammers seem to respond with less needling and few chemicals, they 
seem to hold the voicing longer, and to come back with a spray of rubbing 
alcohol and/or light brushing. Resilient. I think we'll find them lasting 
longer, and that voicing will be a lot easier on the wrists.
(Vodka if you prefer, but rubbing alcohol is cheaper.)
 
Ed Sutton
 
 


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