[CAUT] Wurzen felt

[Otto Keyes]

Gertrude Steinway had guts -- could have been a he...but then Gertrude
always had that problem.  Be careful with all this gender profiling!  We'll
be accused of homo-phonia.  Then all music will have to be monotone to be
PC, so we'll be left with only one pitch to tune.  (The real question is
whether it will be 440.)  Unless we can convince someone to pay us to argue
the pitch point, most of us will be put out of work by the monotonous PC
police.  For the ultimate punishment detractors will be stuck in an elevator
with 20 other condemned piano tuners & forced to listen to innovative new
music, de-composed & played by Johnny Onenote.

'Tis a slippery slope, indeed.


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Wurzen felt


> Stanford names their concert instruments Franz (Hamburg) George (New York)
& Alice (NY).
>
> David
>
> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
> From: Otto Keyes <okeyes@uidaho.edu>
> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
> Received: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:55:19 -0700
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Wurzen felt
>
>
> >At Banff, the two German D's we had were Camille & Brunhilde, while the
NY D
> >was Gertrude.  They all had personalities to match.  :-)
>
> >Otto
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "michelle stranges" <stranges@Oswego.EDU>
> >To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
> >Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 11:50 AM
> >Subject: Re: [CAUT] Wurzen felt
>
>
> >> All pianos are male- so this hairspray nonsense must stop.
> >>
> >> :D
> >>
> >> (Great post, BTW..)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --On Monday, July 25, 2005 11:42 AM -0700 Otto Keyes
<okeyes@uidaho.edu>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > David,
> >> >
> >> > You'll probably find that can of hairspray was merely lacquer in a
> >diluted
> >> > form & a well-coiffed can.  I wrote about using the "spray bomb
method"
> >on
> >> > this list 2-3 years ago, with an astoundingly silent response.
You're
> >the
> >> > first one to confess such nefarious experimentation -- and to
publicly
> >> > admit that it really works!
> >> >
> >> > Great for emergency juicing jobs, but can be easily reversed.
However,
> >it
> >> > can give surprisingly satisfactory & long-lasting results, if
desired.
> >> >
> >> > I use a spray lacquer (like Deft), and acetone as a chaser on the
crown
> >to
> >> > keep it from developing a nasty zing from the crust.  I suspect that
the
> >> > hairspray was dilute enough to achieve the same results.  The thing I
> >like
> >> > about the acetone is the fact that it flashes off so fast that you
> >pretty
> >> > much know what you have within a matter of minutes.  However, your
> >method
> >> > was not only Suave, but it was also cheap -- may have to try it next
> >time.
> >> >
> >> > Otto
> >> >
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "Porritt, David" <dporritt@mail.smu.edu>
> >> > To: <caut@ptg.org>
> >> > Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 2:26 PM
> >> > Subject: [CAUT] Wurzen felt
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> We have a Steinbuhler 7/8 action for a "D" in our main recital hall.
> >It
> >> > isn't used a lot, but it is used.  A couple of weeks ago it was being
> >used
> >> > for a master class and the Ronsen Wurzen hammers were just a little
too
> >> > soft.  The sound was really nice, but the treble didn't have enough
> >higher
> >> > partials to be heard well over the bass.  It sounded muddy in the
hall.
> >> > The professor who uses it wanted some more zing!
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm not a big fan of over doping - particularly on really nice
hammers.
> >> > As a first step I went to CVS pharmacy down the street and got a can
of
> >> > 98-cent Suave Extra-hold hairspray.  I covered everything but the
> >hammers
> >> > with newspaper and sprayed all the hammers but more on the treble
ones.
> >> > The next morning it sounded pretty good.  The professor who prefers
not
> >> > to fight a dull instrument was very happy with it so I quit meddling
> >with
> >> > it.
> >> >>
> >> >> I have to admit I've never tried that before, but had read it
somewhere
> >> > (this list?) and thought that was probably as benign a starting place
as
> >> > any.  I don't think it would have worked on less dense felt, but on
the
> >> > Wurzens it really worked well.
> >> >>
> >> >> dp
> >> >>
> >> >> __________________________
> >> >> David M. Porritt, RPT
> >> >> Meadows School of the Arts
> >> >> Southern Methodist University
> >> >> Dallas, TX 75275
> >> >> dporritt@smu.edu
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