<HTML>Thanks Ron. &= nbsp;I was having a helluva a time trying to find the right sized pin....:-(=  I better pick up a few for my next visit to my friend's house. I actually did try to spread it, but not having done this before, I was = a tad shy of using brute force.  She has a student recital at her house= on Saturday, and I didn't want the show to go on without a middle C... Dave S. In a message dated 10/5/04 9:16:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, rnossaman@c= ox.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-= LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Its not only a trick questi= on, it's a trick flange. You won't likely be able to press the pin into the flange without spreading it some, which w= ill likely break it. This will afford you the opportunity to purchase a new = one (better get a half dozen), which will be so strangely deformed that you will spend far more time, skin, and brain cells trying to get it under control than you will justifiably consider appropriate or right. Don't worry though, that's the way it is. Spreading the flange allows the pin = to go in, and installing the flange with the screw clamps the pin in so it won't move after the fact. All the other straightening and alignment stu= ff is peripheral entertainment. </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>