<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> I think you'd be best off by having a look see for yourself. Course you already knew that, but it brings up nicely the subject matter of how much we can trust an owners assessment of an instrument... and how much we cant. In anycase one needs to be real carefull about making any suggestions or comments based on other then first hand information... yes ??? Cute !! :) Cheers Keith RicB Keith Roberts wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>You're right, my misunderstanding. She said normally they were  angled across the strings one way and now they were they opposite. What she meant was the string angle is about twelve degrees and the hammer is angled 18 degrees. Usually it's less than the string angle. Spacing and string alignment was very difficult. This was on a "M". The hammers were prehung from Steinway. Still doesn't seem right to me.Keith Roberts <blockquote dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Get outa here !! :).... Bass hammers angled the same as the tenor ??????? And it aint even April 1st :) RicB Keith Roberts wrote:</blockquote> </blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A>   </body> </html>