<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" color="#0000cd" size="2">Hey should we start a petition to do away with petrified felt? Or perhaps just a a boycott.</font> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" color="#0000cd" size="2"> On the same page, same choir, same team same, same, same,...........</font></div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" color="#0000cd" size="2">For what it worth the Renner Weickert or Blue points is a very different hammer than the old rock hard Renner blues (a worth less hammer). </font></div> <div><font color="#0000cd"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font size="2">Da</font>le</font><br> </font><br> <div style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt; clear: both;"><font color="darkgreen" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"><br> <font color="darkgreen"></font></font></b></span></font><tt><tt><font color="darkgreen" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Del wrote</font></tt></tt></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica;"><br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_7e9e4500-1ae1-4240-ba6c-56c89ec5632b"> <div class="WordSection1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">Yes, well, good luck with that….</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">—and pianomakers—continue pressing wool felt with too much moisture and too much pressure and too much heat forcing the stuff into something having the shape—but not the soul—of piano hammers. And piano technicians continue buying these atrocities and they continue recommending the pianos fitted with them to their overly trusting customers. And then, when the pianos don’t sound “right,” they have to drag out every heroic voicing technique in the book in a desperate attempt to make those piano hammer shaped whatever-they-are musically less bad. Bah! Humbug!</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"> </font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">ddf</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"> </span><b style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(65, 105, 225); font-size: x-small;"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin R.P.T.</font></font></font></b></div> <font size="1" color="royalblue" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font color="green">Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.</font><br> </font></font></font></b></font><font color="darkgreen" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"><font size="1" color="black"><font color="blueviolet"><font color="black"><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Mason & Hamlin</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">/Steinway/</font><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">U.S. pianos</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br> </font></font></font></font><font size="1" color="cornflowerblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">www.Erwinspiano.com</font><font size="1"><br> </font><font size="1" color="crimson" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Phone: 209-577-8397</font></font></b></span></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br> </div> </div> </div>  </div> </div> </font>