<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> nirran wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><font face="Times New Roman">On this Grotrian the problem is that the bolts on the upper part of the plate are without</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><font face="Times New Roman">Any slot, or access to any nut.</font> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><font face="Times New Roman">The piano is already without strings. By the way, it has some strings with three</font> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><font face="Times New Roman">Windings in the low bass and some with very thin diameter before the cross section.</font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"></div>  <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><font face="Times New Roman">Rani Nir</font></blockquote> <p><br>Well I called the Grotrian dealer in town today and asked the shop technician there about this and he said he never heard of anything like it.  Probably the best thing is to get someone else to help you poke around as there has to be plate screws up there, and they have to be screwable as it were. <p>He suggested there might be some kind of covering cap on the bolt heads that is there for decoration, and that you might just have to pop those off, or that there was some wooden covering along the whole top of that area of the plate that needed to be removed first if you cant see them at all. <p>Let us know what you come up with. Take an E-picture if you can <br>  <p>-- <br>Richard Brekne <br>RPT, N.P.T.F. <br>Bergen, Norway <br><A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <br>  </body> </html>