Voicing Help

[Fenton Murray]

A 30 year old G2 or 3 I re-hammered some years back with Ronson's Wurtzen felt did indeed respond with a great un-Yamaha sound, much more old school American sounding, and I liked it, a kind of high bred. One thing I had trouble with was hammer weight, even though the Yamaha hammers were dimensionally larger, they were much lighter. I used a light molding on these hammers & did some aggressive machining, but they were still heavy. I'm sure this contributed to the sound that I liked, but it gave me inertia problems in the key with the additional lead I added, every thing is a trade off, but this is something to be considered. Obviously there are other things that could be addressed such as whip assist spring tension and action geometry, one thing leads to another.
Fenton 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: erwinspiano at aol.com 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:23 PM
  Subject: Re: Voicing Help





    Julia
    I have never understood the Yamaha hammer design philosophy. They come back to the place you've described frequently. even with my best job of voicing I can not get the tone I want or the tone to last with a majority of OEM hammers.
     So many good low compression hammers works so well in these pianos.  The Ronsen is a good one with 3 felts to choose from. I'd go Bacon or VFG felt. The Wurzen felt can be a bit  stiff in these pianos. I find the piano in general can develop more tonal potential & dynamics & a more enjoyable tone overall with replacement hammers. Others may disagree....I'm ok with that.
    Dale Erwin


  Greetings,

           I usually shallow needle my Yami's U3 hammers after tuning to take off the "glassy" edge. However, after 10+ years of playing on this piano (This is my personal piano), sugar-coating ain't cutting it anymore.  The hammers sound ear-piercing. I side needled the area just in front of the wood core, but this only alleviated the ear piercing sound a little. These hammers were packed hard too!  Is Yamaha hammer quality the problem?  What am I doing wrong? ...or aren't I needling enough?  

  Thanks
  Julia Gottshall
  Reading, PA 





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