<!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">Richard Brekne</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">Thank you for your reply.</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">Since 1974 I did a lot of uprights and grands rebuilding jobs.</font></blockquote> <p><br>Ah... sorry to have misunderstood. <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"><font face="Times New Roman">Any slot, or access to any nut.</font></div> </blockquote> <p><br>Im not sure I quite understand... are you saying that the plate screws are ... shall we say bald ? How on earth were they tightened then ? I will ask the fellow in town who sells these to see if he knows anything about this kinda thing, but perhaps someone else has run into this before ? <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"></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">The piano is already without strings. By the way, it has some strings with three windings in the low bass and some with very thin diameter before the cross section.</font> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><font face="Times New Roman">Can you recommend of a very good winder in  = "Europe?</font> <p>I have not found anyone yet who does consistantly top quality work. Some of em sorta automatically take it upon themselves to recalculate the string scale so be carefull. This isnt always what one wants or what is best.   Mostly I end up useing the ex Yamaha importers in Norway as we are not part of the Europe Union thingy... so buying out of county gets real expensive. John Delcour would be able to help you I am sure...grin.. tho I suppose he would recommend himself. <p>Sorry John... couldnt help myself. :) <p>If nobody else pipes in, I will see what I can find out for you tommorrow.. its late here now.. I am off to bed <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>