Jerry, A somewhat related question. Would doing the same thing (changing out the FR felts) also affect the way the pianist perceives the touch? That isn't really the correct word, but a customer the other day complained about her B feeling almost like it would feel if she were playing on a table; a hard, percussive type of feel. I assume changing the felt would improve that because of the comepression of the old felt. Or could it be something else? Avery >Jerry Anderson wrote: > >Several years ago, in one of the Hamburg voicing rooms >Stephan Knupfer demonstrated to me that he could get >a noticable difference in tone quality in a Steinway D by >changing the front rail felts. The piano was one of their >circulating concert instruments, only about 18 months >old. By changing an 18 month old, not visably worn, front >rail felt with a new one (controlling carefully that the touch >depth was not altered), he demonstrated that the tone became >significantly more warm sounding. He could move the >new punching from one note to another without my looking >and I could find it every time by it's distinctive sound. _____________________________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston 713-743-3226 atodd@uh.edu _____________________________________
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