<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 10/12/2006 12:15:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jonpage@comcast.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>>...<FONT color=#000000 size=-4>now I have to deal with the capsizing and checking problems.</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-4>>The tails are way to short...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=-4><BR><FONT face=Arial></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>I order hammer from Ronsen unbored, untapered, uncoved extra long molding.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>This way I can custom bore the lengths for each section, hang the set and trim the tails</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>to equal length.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Yes, but on a Steinway D, apart from what the technician thinks of factory vs. non-factory parts, it would add an undesirable extra layer of politics (read "headache")....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Bob Davis</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>