<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV>ric wrote:</DIV> <DIV>"...the amount of lead does not look particularly abnormal for a concert grand."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>.......And that amount is...?????</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Terry Farrell</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV> </DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Thanks David and all who have replied to this so far.  </DIV> <DIV>The balance hole area is, I agree,  very important and  will be my next port of call.  Roger has brought the issue up with Petrofs suggesting that this is an established problem.  Has anyone else here come up against this?  It would seem that the keyboards are Petrof's own design, married (in this case) with a Renner action.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have also looked at  the key leads as mentioned by David Love and Terry Farrell but the amount of lead does not look particularly abnormal for a concert grand.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I am assuming that there are re-builders out there who have taken these more modern Petrofs apart and anylised the design.  I welcome all suggestions.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>ric</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>