David I see no real difference between Andres verbal enthusiasms for his punchings and yours for your product. I see absolutly no grounds for you to offer him a <<correction>> in this regard considering the many enthusastic advertisements of various sorts you have given for your product through various PTG endeavours including this list. In fact, given the latitude exhibitors like youself have been given in being allowed to be defined as instructors at conventions... (a latitude people like myself have supported vigorously) I find your comments towards Andre curious at best. >/Looking at felt through a microscope can only reveal the />/degree of fineness of wool fibers used in a felt, and nothing more. / /Yes! And the degree of fineness is very important to know. In my experience, especially with hammers, finer fiber means a finer quality of felt and tone. I'm interested to know if Wurzen felt uses finer (smaller diameter) fiber than everyone else. There is always something to learn by looking more closely at things... especially with a scanning electron microscope./ --------- I fail to see how your comment here is in any way at odds with the statement I made which proceeds it. >/Claims about the technical correctness of the use of cloth vs felt are />/simply ungrounded at this point one way or the other. As are claims as />/to why. / /Richard... There is ample grounding for the correctness of using cloth for front rail punchings./ ------- No... it is not. There is no comparison data out there to confirm such speculative (and I might add, hasty) conclusions. Course I'd be willing to see it if there was. I'd love to see where these are covered in the anals of piano making history. More likely, cloth has been used simply because it has been always deemed "adequate" to the job and cost effective. ------------ /Its use has evolved through the total experience of the whole piano industry over all of time and we all use it because the test of time shows that it is the best construction of felt for that application in the piano. So I would think twice if you're going to throw out all that history, experience, and collective knowledge./ ------------- To be sure, and by the same logic we can say that your whole methodology is then useless because it questions that same history, experience, and collective knowledge. Whats good for the proverbial Goose. ---------------- /To be honest Richard, I feel that it is inappropriate for you to bring up personal issues and judgements such as you have in regards to me and my Dutch Colleague Frans Pietjouw. / -------------- I really and truly believe it entirely appropriate and called for, given the circumstance. And I still do. -------------- /This list is about sharing knowledge, not personal issues. /I agree, which is why I reacted. And having said and now underlined my concern, I'll leave it to rest. //With Respect Richard Brekne
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