<HTML>In a message dated 7/6/01 11:35:26 AM Central Daylight Time, pianobuilders@olynet.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">If someone at Baldwin told you that, they were giving you incorrect information. No modern piano has been built using a 1/7 strike point in the treble</BLOCKQUOTE> Del It was the head of the technical department. (I can't remember his name off hand, but he was a very popular instructor at many seminars. I am sure someone will remind me who that was). Anyway, perhaps he told me that measurement as an easy way to get the hammers back on the piano, considering the instrument, not as an exact measurment for all the hammers. Wim</HTML>