Two felts better than one? / was: Andre's Front Punchings

[Jason Kanter]

It may be useful to think of it as voicing of another felted impact, similar
to the one we do with needles at the other end of the chain. We are creating
a springy cushion. Having the softer layer is like shallow needling at the
crown. /Jason

On Feb 6, 2008 11:43 PM, Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no> wrote:

> To some degree yes. It rather has to. On some pianos these pressed felt
> punchings result in to much noise, and as Kent pointed out sometimes
> pianists simply want a softer feel.  I start with just the Wurzen
> conicals, and if its just plain too noisy  I put in a 1 mm Kashmir
> underneath.  The result is still quite a bit more firm then most, ilf
> not all, cloth punchings alone. Some of the green punchings available
> are downright mushy really.
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>
>
>    BTW why would putting a thin cloth punching under the conical, firm
>    punchings at the key front not defeat the purpose of having a firm
>    landing
>    bed for the key which the Wurzen conical punchings provide on their
> own?
>
>    David Love
>    davidlovepianos at comcast.net
>    www.davidlovepianos.com
>
>


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