<HTML>In a message dated 5/27/2003 8:33:44 PM Pacific Standa= rd Time, spalding48@earthlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">All pedals operated satisfactor= ily, lots of wood-on-dirty-wood sound when the shift is operated.  Look= ed like it was sitting right down on the bed.  </BLOCKQUOTE> Hmmph. Bummer. Okay, back to= the stretcher. Most of them are roughly even with the bottom of the pinbloc= k. If this one isn't, that makes me think it wants to come out. I once worke= d on an 8+ foot Starr (!) piano that had such a stretcher. The ends were slo= tted, and the slots slipped over keys screwed to the arms. We had to give it= a pretty good whomp (upward) with the rubber mallet in order to disengage i= t. Pretty scary the first time, but nothing else would do.... Bob D </HTML>