<HTML>In a message dated 1/19/2002 9:15:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, davidlovepianos@earthlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj:Re: Baldwin accu-hitch pins Date:1/19/2002 9:15:16 PM Pacific Standard Time From:<A HREF="mailto:davidlovepianos@earthlink.net">davidlovepianos@earthlink.net</A> Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> Sent from the Internet          David</BLOCKQUOTE>    David Hughes and I both drive wedges in uder each strut to compress the board along its entire span. We start at the central strut then first and last capo then bottom strut. Then the dime quarter nickel business. I use 2.5 mm top treble 2.25mm first treble an bout 2mmin tenor tapering to 1.5 or so down low on tenor. Bass is set with about 1/2 degree at the top tapering down to 0 at the bottom. Pretty much the same.    Dale <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> Dale: My conversations and classes that I attended with David Hughes (if I remember correctly) led me to believe that he prestressed the board under the central plate strut by 3 mm and then set the bearing dime, nickel, quarter, in low tenor, mid-range, treble, respectively.  That seemed to pretty much be his method without additional measurement.  I'm sure he arrived at this method by much experience, but he didn't seem to sweat it beyond that. David Love <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Dale: </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>