Felt quality

[Ron Nossaman]

> I read a lot on this list about doping hammers.  Why should it be 
> necessary to dope any hammer that is properly made from the proper felt 
> in the first place?
> 
> JD

Lots of reasons, mostly having to do with soundboard 
efficiency or lack thereof, followed by hammer quality, and 
generations of consumer training to the effect that any piano 
not producing noise well beyond the ever rising pain threshold 
needs harder hammers.
Ron N