I have solved a few pianist's complaints of 'playing into wood or concrete' by replacing the front rail felt. The old stuff had become rather stiff. Jon Page Cape Cod. Mass ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At 06:05 PM 11/9/96 -0600, you wrote: >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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