<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><BR><B><I>Erwinspiano@aol.com</I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR><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></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>