<HTML>In a message dated 4/2/02 12:29:47 AM !!!First Boot!!!, pbondi2@comcast.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Hello all. A retiring local technician has given me a whole bunch of stuff, including alot of damper felt and hammers, bored and un-bored. He has no idea how old the stuff is..so..how old might be too old? I'm more worried about the damper felt than the hammers..or should it be vice-versa? I wasn't going to say 'no', Phil </BLOCKQUOTE> Unless the damper felts got wet, or were exposed to a lot of moisture outside the box, I would say there shooed not be anything wrong with it. After all, we work on pianos that are 50 - 100 years old, and the hammers, and in some cases the dampers, are still in good condition. Wim</HTML>