>...where to where? >> > >Gerald; > From a line perpendicular to the front of the key bed to the back edge of >the top lid, with the lid down. >Jim Bryant (FL) Jim, List, That's the way I used to think as well. Then someone, don't remember who, but someone with the creditability to know such things, advised me the reference measurement at the rear is not the end of the lid, but the furthest end of the piano. Which is what I've been taking into consideration ever since when measuring grand pianos. Fwiw, Keith McGavern Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA http://www.highpointpiano.com/ptg/conv/chicago2002/
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