<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charse= t=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f">There is precious little bearing on the two strings that are touched by t= he hitchpins below. In fact I suspect that that has already been tried since= the other adjacent bass strings are considerably lower on their pins. = The two offending hitchpins are indeed higher than their neighbors.  I= will try the grinding.  Its seems safer. Thanks. TP</BODY></HTML>