Weickert Special-By Wurzen

[andré oorebeek]

Hi Dale and Listers,

Except from this list, I have not yet heard about the new "Weickert  
Special by Wurzen" here in Europe.
I find that strange.
I will of course ask Renner, traditionally the Wurzen felt hammer maker.

I wonder about the hardness of this Weickert Special?
These last years new Wurzen felt hammers were a bit soft. I have  
learned how to solve that problem, but I have asked Renner Europe to  
do something about that.
I am a bit afraid that this new top quality felt might be too soft as  
well.
We are in agreement that Jack Brand's felt is the best hammer felt in  
the world, but, as I mentioned before, the AA quality was too dense to  
my taste.
Too much needling and a weight problem.

I therefor am happy with my Wurzen A from Renner.
I am of course curious though and open to try it out.
I will contact Jack Brand and Renner.

My book?
It is in the hands of our friend Jurgen Goering.
I trust him completely and he is in charge.
I am in the process of taking the pictures and it will be a very nice  
book.
It's actually the very first 'service manual for voicing technicians'  
and it describes in detail the whole process of how to voice new  
hammers and used hammers, plus a complete description of the  
materials, the tools and the methods, the differences between brands  
etc etc.
It will be published in English, but I will leave the actual date of  
coming out to Jurgen.

friendly greetings
from
André Oorebeek

Antoni van Leeuwenhoekweg 15
1401 VW, Bussum
the Netherlands

tel :    +31 35 6975840
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"where Music is, no harm can be"




On Oct 16, 2008, at 3:00 AM, erwinspiano at aol.com wrote:

>
>   Hi Andre
>   Good to hear from you on this as I know you have championed the  
> cause of excellent feltand have been  a staunch proponent of  
> properly pressed hammers. Both as you say is so important.
>  It's nice to know Renner makes a hammer you can work with there.  
> Renner USA in the states has also been a long and trusted  supporter  
> of Wurzen Felt co. & the Brand family. In fact, from the very  
> beginning Lloyd Meyer Of Renner U.S.A. signed up with Jack to  
> reintroduce the quality felt made in that plant. The Quality of The  
> Renner USA product shows the Commitment of Lloyd & Donna Meyer to  
> this endeavor. We are directly and indirectly in there debt as they  
> were one of Jacks first clients when the plant reopened in 1992.
>  Consequently Jack has passionately pursued the making of Fine  
> Hammer felt using many of the original J.D Weickert co. formulas and  
> protocols.
>   The Wurzen made felts have been called  thus far and are Known by  
> the  felt grades of... Wurzen..  A ... and AA.
>   I want to be clear that this latest iteration is  known by the now  
> trademarked name the "Weickert special by Wurzen" and is a fairly  
> dramatic shift up the quality line in terms of felt science and  
> technology.  In fact Ray,Jack and I discoverd that it is so  
> dramatically different that w e decided it required this name.
>    All the Hammer felts Wurzen makes are fine quality and this new  
> Weickert special by Wurzen  gives us another huge compliment to our  
> tonal arsenals & huge a move toward the future of a more musical  
> piano tone.
>     I will truthfully say that Jack is a true artisan felt maker who  
> is also as equally passionate about this endeavor as technicians.  
> This strkies me as odd because Jacks Wurzen co. make so many felt  
> products and hammer felt is small part of the felt making operation.  
> Yet, he loves it. You know...we are all passionate about something.  
> Jacks is felt & ours is tone
>  My Friends we have a true ally in our business & he is my friend,  
> Jack . My only regret is we didn't meet sooner. Perhaps we can get  
> him to teach at our conventions more frequently.
>   Andre, I'm looking forward to getting a copy of your voicing book.  
> WHen does it come out?
>   Dale Erwin
>
>
> You guys seem to forget that Renner makes very beautiful hammers  
> here in Europe, with.. Wurzen felt.
> I have been in contact with Jack Brand for a long time, and I have  
> followed the development of his 'Wurzen felt' right from the start,  
> after the reunion of the two Germany's.
> I have had this fantastic felt for a=2 0long time now and I never  
> ever want any other felt.
> Because of my age, (I am 59) I am a typical example of a generation  
> that was forced to learn voicing with the felt that was for sale as  
> an alternative for the Weickert felt, simply because the Weickert  
> felt was not produced anymore after the Soviets entered East Germany.
> Getting acquainted with the 'new' Wurzen felt was a surprising  
> discovery! even though it was in its early stages of development  
> after all those years.
> I have actually learned to voice this renewed Weickert felt, which  
> was named Wurzen felt after the town where it is made (Wurzen), at  
> Yamaha, because they were, I guess, one of the very first ones  
> (together with Steinway, to use the new Wurzen felt on their CFIII-S.
> I do not really like the AA standard because it is, according to me,  
> too dense and too heavy, and it takes much longer to voice than the  
> single A standard which is my favorite.
> The real secret of having a fine success with these hammers is :
> 1. the quality of the wool
> 2. the quality of the felt
> 3. the quality of the hammer maker
> 4. the quality of the technician
>
> I have been able to influence Renner to make a hammer for me,  
> according to my taste.
> That makes all the difference! and that is , I guess, is what Ray  
> Negron is doing.
> He (Ray Negron)20told me that his father used Weickert felt in the  
> old days.
> Because of our contact, years ago, and through the willingness of  
> Jack Brand, the Weickert/Wurzen felt came back to Ronsen and back to  
> the US.
>
> friendly greetings
> from
> André Oorebeek
>
>
>




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