> and letting them go to the left enough to > have a more healthy felt under the strings No. The piano was designed, agraffe holes, string spaced to tuning pins and hitch pins, specifically so the correct hammer spacing is twice as much felt on the right side of a unison as there is on the left side. This is so the action needs to move the least amount possible for unichorda effect. In other words, it ain't broke, don't change the design. The bass hammers are spaced to the left so they hit their respective strings in the rest and in the unichorda position. The action absolutely must be set up as I outlined previously in order to make everything line up with each other. Of course, in New York there have been some ... Newton
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