> > Oh, okay, I get you now. It's ultimately the strength of the plate that > > would allow a design that has the soundboard extending up behind the > > pinblock. >And what on earth does it do up there?! It gives the sales people bragging rights on more sounding board area, basic PR BS. They did the same thing with the bass cutoff bar. My question would be, how does one restring these? You can't support the block while driving pins, I've often wondered about this while encountering Astin-Weights; hoping I would not have to replace a loose pin. -- Regards, Jon Page -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071007/98539fd5/attachment.html
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