<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV>This looks very similar to a piano I had to work on when I first got in= the business. The piano, a Baldwin Acrosonic, came out of a residence hall = at Washington University in St. Louis. The word I got was that the universit= y had just announced a fee hike, and some students didn't like that, so they= trashed the piano. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As in your case, it was a piano still in production, so I called Willar= d Sims at Baldwin and asked for advice. I was told to install hammer 88 so t= hat the strike point was at 1/7 of the length of the string, then to cut the= rest of the shanks the same length. I did, and the piano was salvaged. </DI= V> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"= >Willem Blees, RPT<BR>Piano tuner/technician<BR>School of Music<BR>Universit= y of Alabama<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>