<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV>Tiny, crappy grand. Someone did major repairs(?) to ribs, soundboard, etc. A real hatchet job with great globs of epoxy ...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>They replaced the block and restrung it not too badly except they used a block so thick that you can't get the action out without tilting it and I still snapped off one bass hammer. Drop screws barely clear when the action is in.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Measured the depth of holes to bottom of pins and it's almost an inch!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any reason one couldn't take a belt sander to the underside of that board and grind off about a 1/4" in the bass, 1/8" in tenor and treble? No room for a router.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Alan R. Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Ready to Sand, Sander in Hand in Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML>