<html> Hi Terry,                 Just measure the thickness of the outer rim, and then the thickness of the rim at the bottom and subtract. Roger At 09:40 PM 9/6/02 -0400, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>How wide is the inner rim beveled area of a Steinway D - or what width is about the maximum that one commonly runs across (that is, how thick is the joint between the inner rim top surface and the soundboard edge)? I need to make clamping blocks for clamping a soundboard to the rim, and want to make the lower edge (the part that presses against the soundboard) as wide as the wider beveled areas of pianos. I know the D has a fairly thick rim - but perhaps that doesn't have much to do with how wide the beveled top part is.Thanks. Terry Farrell   </blockquote> </html>