<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">In a message dated 9/13/02 7:00:15 PM Central Daylight Time, lclgcnp@yahoo.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> Could you let the tension off the strings, loosen the plate and raise it enough to slide some shims under the sides of the block? Might just be glides, though, plenty "tooners" don't know what to do with them.      Thump </BLOCKQUOTE> In most pianos the pinblock is screwed to the shelf under the plate, if so you would have to remove the plate to get to the screws.  More rarely the screws may actually go through the plate and pinblock and tighten into the shelf, if this is the case you could drop tension, loosen the screws, jack the plate up and fit shims to the proper height.  It may be just the guides or a thick block that didn't need shims except for action clearance.  A good evaluation is in order before moving ahead. David Koelzer Vintage Pianos DFW </HTML>