<html> <body> <br> <pre>>Don't forget an email to Steinway. Once I got them off the rail I found a stamped date: 30. Marz, 1987. Looks like they're Hamburg. They didn't look that old either. Bolstering did not attenuate the noise significantly from an undercut sample. I trimmed-down an Exacto blade to make a narrow swath. The buckskin is not overly hard, it's just the firm contact with the rep lever. Even with replacing the buckskin I might opt to leave glue out from the area under the upstop screw. Undercutting seems to suit the bill, for now anyway. Jon Page </body> </html>