<!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>   Tom</DIV> <DIV>  Yes I agree.   I'm a big one for custom bored hammer lines too. It would be easier to do as you suggest.  Plug & bore them & Use them in something that's has a similar bore..etc</DIV> <DIV>  Dale</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>Dale</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks for the reply.  Sure, it would be even better if the boring fit another piano, but what are the chances of that?  I would think that there are so many variables that it would be quite a coincidence if the hammers fit, intact, as is, on any other piano.  Even if the bass strings angle matched the hammer boring, what about the strike point?  (Or is the strike point/shank length more uniform from piano to piano than I imagine?)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Tom Sivak</DIV> <DIV>Chicago<BR></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>