>I believe you said before that often the feet on the counter bearing bar >need to be ground down. Why is that? What problem is that designed to solve? > >Terry Farrell To get some reasonable bearing (and friction) across the V bar. The new Steinway vertical's charming combination of extremely tight tuning pins, flag poling with no plate bushings, and a very low bearing angle at the V bar, is what makes them un-tunable. They just did too many things wrong all at once. Adding counter bearing by lowering the pressure bar gives you some friction to work with, and makes it less uncontrollable. If there were as easy a fix for the super tight flag poling pins, I expect these creatures could actually be "rendered" tunable by mortals. Ron N
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