How to go adjusting that fly in the window...

[BobDavis88@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 01/12/2001 4:15:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu writes:

> You'll still have to do it by the Braille system, but 
>  it can be done.  

It's too hard to see through the regulating buttons, so I like to do it from 
overhead. In the shop, I plop the action onto two sawhorses. I stand at the 
rear of the action, looking down. I am right-handed, so I stand facing the 
treble, and reach over to adjust with my right hand. With my left, I depress 
the adjacent repetition lever so I can see how the jack relates to the 
knuckle on the one I am adjusting. I can easily see the (thin) tool engage 
the jack. It goes easily. Usually when I have finished a section, I rest my 
left hand lightly on the hammers, and push the keys with my right (with the 
tool still in my hand, held out of the way). This makes sure none of the 
jacks cheat.

Elsewhere, I either use a low table, or turn the action around in the keybed 
and do the same thing, although in the keybed I turn it back around, resting 
the center rail on the keybed and the front rail on my knee, to check for 
cheating.

Bob Davis