<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3><EM>   Dittos. Good suggestion.  I do this to many plates. Especially Steinway to prevent the pins from possibly leaning into the plate hole itself.</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3><EM>  Dale</EM></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Bob,<BR><BR>I'm not an expert, but I'd say if there is room (and I suspect there is)<BR>just drill out the plate to enlarge the existing tuning pin holes in the<BR>plate to whatever size bushing you wish to use.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>William R. Monroe</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>