<!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 6.00.2900.2668" 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=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>   </DIV> <DIV>  Tom</DIV> <DIV>    A gallon a gas, a nice cool evening, a match a kimball & some marshmellows. That'll fix bout anything.</DIV> <DIV>    Flamesuit on.   <IMG src="http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/smi/0201d201a5/16"></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><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face=Geneva color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">List<BR><BR>When hammer felt is worn through to the w= ood, what can be done, short of replacing the hammers with new ones, to restore= some semblance of tone quality?     <STRONG><FONT size=3>This is an old Kimball</FONT></STRONG> owned by a family on a bud= get, and not a candidate for replacing the set of hammers. <BR><BR>Thanks in advance for your advice,<BR>Tom Sivak<BR>Chicago</FONT><FONT face=Geneva= color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"></FONT> </FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>