<HTML>In a message dated 2/21/03 12:22:20 AM !!!First Boot!!= !, cedel@supernet.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Friends, A piano-tuner beginner was trying to explain something to me she found in an old Baldwin upright.  If I understood the description correctly,<= BR> the bass string hitch pins were in wood rather than the cast iron plate.  Was there ever anything like this?  I haven't seen the pia= no. Apparently the wood is all split up.  My hunch was she's talking about<= BR> the bass bridge, but she said where the string ends at the loop. Responses? Regards, Clyde </BLOCKQUOTE> Me thinks she has her terminology wrong, or that she isn't sure what she saw= . I have never heard of strings being attached to wood hitch pins. I don't t= hink they could stand up to the tension. Wim </HTML>