<HTML>In a message dated 6/1/2003 7:01:31 AM Pacific Standar= d Time, davidlovepianos@earthlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">My guess is that the knuckle po= sition is 16mm and it should be 17 mm.</BLOCKQUOTE> Unless they've been changed, a 1999 piano should have 17mm knuckles already.= David S has offered to graph things, which would be lovely, but just from t= he numbers Mark gives, I would say a change in leading is out, and the choic= es to bring the balance weight down are between lightening the hammers a lit= tle, and moving the capstans, unless I'm wrong about the knuckles. In the pi= ano's present location, I would lean toward filing. True, they aren't super = heavy, but neither are they criminally light. I would be interested to know how the piano regulated, i. e., how much dip w= as required (assuming 1.75" blow). I would take a look at the action spread = (not expecting a problem), and I would look to see where the capstans hit th= e repetitions. These are all pretty quick. Bob D</HTML>