Wurzen felt

[Richard Brekne]

Delwin D Fandrich wrote:

> -
> > Hmmm... somewhat conflicting responses here. I think the thing to do is
> to send
> > Del a set of these Wurzen's we get over here and see what he thinks. Now
> who's
> > going to chip in for the cash to buy and send them ... eh ?? :)
> >
>
> Because at this point that's probably the only way I'll try them. Over the
> past ten years or so I've bought and tossed more sets of Renner hammers
> than I care to remember. For a while there I kept letting myself be talked
> into buying and trying the latest and greatest and they kept getting harder
> and more strident. Beautifully made but way to hard and dense for anything
> I'm doing. Frankly I've given up on them. At least on those we've been
> getting here in the U.S. I just can't afford to keep on experimenting with
> these things....
>
> Del
>

Here I have to echo your experience Del. When I moved here I tried a couple
sets of Renners and swore I'd never touch them again. That was 22 years ago. It
wasnt until about 5 years ago that I bought a new set for an old C and noticed
then that getting a needle into them was not a problem... which suprised me as
I was not looking forward to the ordeal of voicing them.  Renner lost the
Steinway contract over the hardness issue for a while somewhere along the line.
So clearly Renner had gone towards making Rock Hard hammers. And they still do
offer some hard hammers. Petrof instruments come in often with Renners and
those are not at all the same hardness.

These that Andre gets, and are possible to secure direct from Renner are
clearly made to different specs, even if the felt is the same. That being said
I dont exclude the possibility that you might find them too hard. But for the
sake of this ongoing discussion about soundboard efficiency vs voicing.... it
sure would be nice to find out.

Cheers
RicB



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