<!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 6.00.2900.2963" 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> It's not hard. Cut them off & clean up the existring flat side to fit in the boring jig & bore away.  Been there done that. It works. Better off saving the intact assemblies  as is for a similarly bored piano.  Think of the labor savings.</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> <DIV>So the question is: how hard would it be to rebore these for a different piano? If I cut off the old shanks (actually they're relatively new, too) flush, couldn't the hammers be re-bored and installed in a different piano?  <BR><BR>I don't see a reason why not, but then, there's so much I don't know.  What do you guys think?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Tom Sivak</DIV> <DIV>Chicago</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>