Private response .... what kind of felt?

[Richard Moody]

Lloyd, list
	Since this "private response" came up on pianotech, I would like to
repsond. If you would like to post to the list of how you choose felt to
compose your hammers, it would be of interest. If you want to disclaim how
others do it, ie  "producing felt with the diameter of individual wool
fibers decreasing across the felt sheet."  it would be interesting for us
why this is  not true, ("silly threads"), or why your methods of wool
selection are better. 
	I am asking this from the prospective of a wool producer.  We raise
Rambolait sheep (Rambouillet) crossed with Colombian. This produces one of
the finest fibers sheep are capable of. (second only to pure Rambulait).  
	Since you express interest in the kind of fibers that go into hammers,
could you give us an idea of what kind of wool you would like to buy?  If
there is a speciality wool market for piano hammer making, I would like to
know it, and would very much like to produce wool for this market nitch if
there is indeed one. 

	In respect to your comments it is  interesting how how a graduation of
wool diameters can be acheived through a sheet of made for hammers.  

Richard Moody    
	South Central South Dakota

"Where the deep depths of winter produces a wool hardy enough to endure
the  cruel impact of cold steel strings yet imparting the warmest of
tones"  Blah Yeddeh, 1998. 


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> From: Lloyd W. Meyer <LMeyer@compuserve.com>
> To: INTERNET:pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Private response to Ron / Re: hammers: what kind of felt?
> Date: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 4:08 PM
>I liked your response to whoever made the claim of producing felt with
the
diameter of individual wool fibers decreasing across the felt sheet. 
> 
> Lloyd Meyer
> Renner USA
>