Bill & Newton, I seem to remember that the Yamaha blocks worked. Horace >Bill, > >I did one of those beasties and am going to do another. Forget using APSCos >blocks. The angles of the holes are wrong. > >Forget cutting dowels and get the regular dowels with blocks from supply >house. If you need to cut shim stock to glue between block and damper to >get the proper length from string to wire hole. > >These systems are such a royal pain in the backside that I would do anything >and verything possible to make the job as painless as possible. > >I just traded a grand and upright regulation for an old 1916 S&S 52" upright >that I am going to redo for sale or for home. I will NOT do this one the >way I did the last one. > > Newton > nhunt@jagat.com Horace Greeley hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu "Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde LiNCS voice: 725-4627 Stanford University fax: 725-9942
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