<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 5/11/01 10:01:52 AM Central Daylight Time,
<BR>Erwinpiano@email.msn.com (Erwinpiano) writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">My solution was to fully fit the block with a good plate fange contact
<BR>and eliminate the bushing. The piano tunes like a dream(Bolduc block)yeah
<BR>baby. Enough said?
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<BR>Back in the late 1070's and early 1980's when I was interested in the
<BR>rebuilding end of the business, many people were putting plate bushings in
<BR>Steinways. The word from Steinway at the time (and probably still is) was
<BR>exactly the same reasoning that you put forth here, Dale.
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<BR>My only question about that is how far the tuning pin coil ended up being
<BR>from the top of the pinblock. In some cases, it seems to me, the lack of a
<BR>plate bushing really creates a bad "flagpole" effect. Couldn't a well fitted
<BR>pinblock *and* good, hard maple plate bushings make an even better
<BR>arrangement than simply one or the other?
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<BR>What's your and any others opinion on that, please?
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Bill Bremmer RPT
<BR>Madison, Wisconsin</FONT></HTML>