Related Clues:

• Player's piano?
• Not hard, rough or harsh
• Cushy, not tough
• Tender or yielding to pressure
• Is the South frequently not severe enough?
• Frequently there is not much noise from the South
• It's not hard to get to the South so frequently
• Thus, 12 in the piano
• Is the South frequently not hard enough?
• So it's not hard for this to be over one foot
• So the piano gets one foot short
• Frequently at last it's hardly heard not
• Thus it's not hard to add one foot to it
• Is the South frequently like this - one foot short?
• Like flannel and fleece