[pianotech] Fwd: wurzen front punching felt

[David Love]

On the other hand I recently replaced a set on a Bechstein with Wurzen and
they were too hard both in terms of feel and noise so I switched to
something softer.  Different strokes.  I have used the Wurzen successfully
on other occasions.

 

David Love

www.davidlovepianos.com

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Gevaert Pierre
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 11:30 AM
To: tunerryan at yahoo.com; pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Fwd: wurzen front punching felt

 

Hi,

 

I’ve restored the action of a Steinway B from a verry good pianist. 

A former technician had changed the original front rail punching with verry
soft (cheap) ones. I’ve proposed him to put back original Steinway
punchings.

Afther a while he complained that the touch was realy to hard. 

Then I replaced those punchings with Wurzens (wich are clearly softer and
more elastic) and he was verry happy with the results.

 

I now only use the Wurzen punchings.

 

Regards,

 

Pierre Gevaert

 

 

 

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À : pianotech at ptg.org
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I just used a set on an older 6' Baldwin. I have to say I'm not sure I liked
the feel. It seeded too hard. Perhaps I'm just not used to the feel, but it
seemed my figures got more of a shock during hard play. It reminds me of
when Del gave a discussion in our chapter about action saturation. He had
experimented with making the keys and other parts as stiff as possible in
order to eliminate flex in the system and deliver more power to the hammer.
If my memory serves, pianists hated it. 

The firmness of the felt may be an advantage for the technician when setting
key dip, but I would be interested in hearing more about how pianists react
to it. 

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From: erwinspiano at aol.com <erwinspiano at aol.com>
Subject: [pianotech] Fwd: wurzen front punching felt
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Sunday, December 21, 2008, 7:54 AM

 

  Hello,... Hello....Guys
  
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champion since there inception or since Andre introduced them.
    Dale Erwin




Does anyone know where I could by the Wurzen front punching felt?

Does Renner in Germany has it?

 

Talk with Andre Oorebeek

 

antares at euronet.nl

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Regards,

Jon Page

 

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