<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16544" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>  Hi Guys</DIV> <DIV>  I am going to try Water & alcohol on a brand new set of Renner blues that are just to Blasted hard tomorrow.  I'll try straight alcohol first & then work my way up.</DIV> <DIV>    My friend, Starr Taylor, in Florida just reported that he used 50% alcohol & water on some "Rock hard felt" brand hammers in some school Yamaha P-22's with very good success. Mr. Taylor reports having to apply several applications to get the solution to penetrate down to the core.  The results were tonally satisfying & cheaper than new hammers. Heaven forbid.</DIV> <DIV>  Dale</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Mr. Bondi,<BR>    Ditto to Jon's suggestion.<BR>    I treated a gray market G2 yesterday that was the loudest, clangiest<BR>Yamaha I've heard in a long time.<BR>    I squeezed the shoulders with a small 6" vice grip and even resorted<BR>to lateral needling at 11:00 and 1:00 o'clock to bring these bricks down.<BR>The thing doesn't sound great, but it is at least playable <BR>    Tom --Big Papi --Driscoll</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">See what's new at <A title="http://www.aol.com?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001170" href="http://www.aol.com?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001170" target="_blank">AOL.com</A> and <A title="http://www.aol.com/mksplash.adp?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001169" href="http://www.aol.com/mksplash.adp?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001169" target="_blank">Make AOL Your Homepage</A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>