<HTML>In a message dated 7/29/01 6:22:46 AM Central Daylight Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Warrantee, yes. But if you end up doing the work, how does one go about applying proper clamping pressure to the joint????? Terry Farrell   </BLOCKQUOTE> This is not something a local tech should have to do. If it is indeed a warrantee problem, I think the piano should go back to the factory. If Samick will agree on this I am not sure. Case in point. About 15 years a go, a 7' Samick came to a dealer with loose tuning pins. It was obvious that a dull bit was used to drill the block. Instead of taking the piano back, and putting in a new block. Samick opted to have me repin the piano, in the dealers store. Because not all the pins were loose equally, I had to measure each pin for torque, and then repin with an appropriate sized pin. It took me the better part of two day. I tried my best, but in the process, I scratched the plate and broke a couple of stings. It was obvious that the piano had been worked on. This was a brand new piano. It now looked used, but was being sold as new. Another case was loose ribs. The technician at Samick actually recommend I put eye hooks in the ribs, and pull the soundboard to the ribs with screws. I have done this on old uprights, but I told the guy I refused to do that on a brand new piano. I left it alone, and told the customer to talk to the dealer. I don't know what they did. I hope Samick has learned a few things since then, and is willing to accept a problem, and take care of it properly. Wim</HTML>