<HTML>In a message dated 4/19/03 8:05:30 PM Central Daylight= Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Don't you potentially tear up t= he inner surface of the stretcher using that method? Terry Farrell </BLOCKQUOTE> Not on pianos made after the 1920's They put a strip of veneer between the s= tretcher and the pin block. Before that they pin block was glued directly to= the stretcher, and getting those babies out is a pain. Wim </HTML>