<!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>IMO It may be intentional but not nesessary.  I cap my Bolduc blocks with 6 mm cap of very dense delignit bridge cap material to resist flag poling.  It is a wonderful feel & tunes very well.  Leaning against the plate would just screw that up.  Know what I mean?</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>Dale wrote:<BR>Dittos. Good suggestion.  I do this to many plates.<BR>Especially Steinway to prevent the pins from possibly<BR>leaning into the plate hole itself.<BR>  Dale <BR><BR>Del wrote:<BR>A good case can be made that this was intentional. I<BR>wrote a blurb on this for the Journal several years<BR>back. Complete with the geometry.<BR>Del</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>