Listerers ? Every now & then we all have the opportunity to work a very special piano. I guess it was my turn. ? ?I recently worked on an 1878 Weber Upright. It is stunning & I thought I'd post a few pics. ??? This piano lived in a Victorian mansion in Fresno, Ca?until about 20 years ago. It was strung and sold at that time. ?It's original finish is remarkable.?It's Ivory's slightly yellowed but thick & flawless. ? ?I chose to?install?Ronsen Bacon felt hammers for the acoustic invironment & what I thought it needed to optimize it tonally. Trix?refelted the dampers,keybushings,damper levers and butt felts. Basically tone improvement, noise reduction & playability issues. The hammers were simple shaped with the top 25 hammers tapered for weight. The tonal result was stunning. Power ,clarity without noise. Sometimes one gets lucky. I did no further voicing. ? The original tonal assessments sounded pretty iffy with the old hammers?as it has a relatively old school sound board design. so I wasn't sure it would turn out well.?It was such a rewarding job as the clients are friends I've known for over 30 years. ? Oddly when I went to reassemble it all in there house it was there 25 th ?wedding anniversary. Nov. 28. I left the piano apart over the next day, which was thanksgiving. When I returned they said.?We saw a date on the Action ( WNG) & it said Nov 28. 1878. SO cool. Cosmic coincidence. The tone was perfect. No further voicing was needed. It hardly ever happens that way. ?? A Happy trail ? Dale Erwin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081207/e7432f2b/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Weber 1.JPG Type: image/pjpeg Size: 146733 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081207/e7432f2b/attachment-0005.bin> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Weber 2.JPG Type: image/pjpeg Size: 181650 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081207/e7432f2b/attachment-0006.bin> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: weber 3.JPG Type: image/pjpeg Size: 161240 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081207/e7432f2b/attachment-0007.bin> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: weber 4.JPG Type: image/pjpeg Size: 140029 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081207/e7432f2b/attachment-0008.bin> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: weber 5.JPG Type: image/pjpeg Size: 161090 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081207/e7432f2b/attachment-0009.bin>
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