<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"><I>In a message dated 7/25/2002 10:44:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time, pianobuilders@olynet.com writes:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"></I> Del wrote</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">With modern hammer making techniques--very moist felt, lots of steam and<BR>
heat--cracking is less of a problem and thicker felt can more easily be<BR>
used. Considerable resilience is lost in the process but this no longer<BR>
seems to be a desirable characteristic for piano hammers.<BR>
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Regards,<BR>
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Anyone<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"> O.K. I'll bite Del. It's a mostly, largely undesireable charachteristic and detrimental to the kind of piano tone I want to be able to develop. I'm guessin you too. But hey were( I'm) in the minority. I won't go on with more of the same opinion I've expressed before.<BR>
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