<!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 6.00.6000.16608" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>It has long puzzled me why piano makers would go to such extremes when designing<BR>and fitting pinblocks. Brinsmead is not alone in this. We're working on a<BR>Kranich & Bach piano just now with another unnecessarily complex pinblock<BR>design. This thing has four separate twisted and convoluted levels -- each of<BR>which must be carefully fitted to a mating offset in the plate. These were not<BR>particularly great or expensive pianos yet constructing and fitting this<BR>pinblock clearly wasted considerable time and effort. <BR><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Del,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>After spending a few months on one of these a while back I concluded thst K&B had no idea what was going on on the rest of the planet with regard to piano building, or perhaps they/he/she/it didn't care. I invisioned a crazy man making things anyway he could or wanted to perhaps to spite an unspecting subseqent generation.  I think they were nuts, nothing wrong with that. He did it hiiissssss wayyyyy.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fenton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>