David Yes, I can attest that on occasion the denser felt telescopes more noise thru the keybed & into the piano. Compine that with noisy knuckles & desnser wurzen balance rail felt & it can be triple trouble. A Stwy A I sold had this condition. All three were change to reduce the noise. In this case it was first the kknuckle the largest offender then the balance rail & finally the front rail that were changed. Much better Some pianos are more susceptible to this than others. Also other types of factory punching's approach this density. A recent Yamaha comes to mind but again no complaints. ... But by in Large I've not had complaints from pianists using the Wurzen crescendo Front rail Punchings Dale Erwin On the other hand I recently replaced a set on a Bechstein with Wurzen and they were too hard both in terms of feel and noise so I switched to something softer. Different strokes. I have used the Wurzen successfully on other occasions. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Gevaert Pierre Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 11:30 AM To: tunerryan at yahoo.com; pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Fwd: wurzen front punching felt Hi, I’ve restored the action of a Steinway B from a verry good pianist. A former technician had changed the original front rail punching with verry soft (cheap) ones. I9 9ve proposed him to put back original Steinway punchings. Afther a while he complained that the touch was realy to hard. Then I replaced those punchings with Wurzens (wich are clearly softer and more elastic) and he was verry happy with the results. I now only use the Wurzen punchings. Regards, Pierre Gevaert De : pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] De la part de Ryan Sowers Envoyé : dimanche 21 décembre 2008 19:12 À : pianotech at ptg.org Objet : Re: [pianotech] Fwd: wurzen front punching felt I just used a set on an older 6' Baldwin. I have to say I'm not sure I liked the feel. It seeded too hard. Perhaps I'm just not used to the feel, but it seemed my figures got more of a shock during hard play. It reminds me of when Del gave a discussion in our chapter about action saturation. He had experimented with making the keys and other parts as stiff as possible in order to eliminate flex in the system and deliver more power to the hammer. If my memory serves, pianists hated it. The firmness of the felt may be an advantage for the technician when setting key dip, but I would be interested in hearing more about how pianists react to it. --- On Sun, 12/21/08, erwinspiano at aol.com <erwinspiano at aol.com> wrote: From: erwinspiano at aol.com <erwinspiano at aol.com> Subject: [pianotech] Fwd: wurzen front punching felt To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Sunday, December 21, 2008, 7:54 A M Hello,... Hello....Guys Remember... Jurgen Goering at WWW.PianoFortesupply has been there champion since there inception or since Andre introduced them. Dale Erwin Does anyone know where I could by the Wurzen front punching felt? Does Renner in Germany has it? Talk with Andre Oorebeek antares at euronet.nl -- Regards, Jon Page Listen to 350+ m usic, sports, & news radio stations – including songs for the holidays – FREE while you browse. Start Listening Now! Listen to 350+ music, sports, & news radio stations – including songs for the holidays – FREE while you browse. Start Listening Now! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081221/d740af7d/attachment-0001.html>
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