<!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> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><EM><FONT size=3>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?</FONT></EM> <DIV><EM><FONT size=3>  Dale</FONT></EM></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><SPAN class=234523417-17052006><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=3>Yes, Dale, I do know what you mean. But in the 1800s Steinway did not use Delignit bridge cap stock either on their pinblocks or on their bridges. Hence the design as we have it passed down to us today. Including a traditional tuning pin drill angle that is obviously counterproductive but still widely used.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=234523417-17052006><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=3></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=234523417-17052006><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=3>Del</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>