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

[Susan Kline]

On 11/20/2010 2:33 PM, Jim Busby wrote:
>
> Susan,
>
> Yes, but I would call Rick Baldassin (801-322-4441) to order. He'll 
> get the right ones for you and delivery is the same.
>
> Jim
>
thanks, Jim
>
> *From:*caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] *On Behalf 
> Of *Susan Kline
> *Sent:* Saturday, November 20, 2010 2:45 PM
> *To:* caut at ptg.org
> *Subject:* Re: [CAUT] Weikert felt --was: Chopstick tool needles?
>
> Jim, you make that sound so tempting! And this is my home piano, it 
> gets played but not beat up. Probably the last hammers it will need in 
> my lifetime.
>
> Renner Blue Point, www.rennerusa.com <http://www.rennerusa.com> will 
> get me to Lloyd Meyer?
>
> Susan
>
>
> On 11/20/2010 12:30 PM, Jim Busby wrote:
>
> 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> 
> [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] *On Behalf Of *Susan Kline
> *Sent:* Friday, November 19, 2010 10:04 AM
> *To:* caut at ptg.org <mailto:caut at ptg.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [CAUT] Weikert felt --was: Chopstick tool needles?
>
> Jim, 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> 
> [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] *On Behalf Of *Ed Sutton
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 18, 2010 6:52 PM
> *To:* caut at ptg.org <mailto: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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