<html> <body> Hi Julia,              Happy things worked out for you. Re, lost motion.  Many consoles have front weighted keys.  If the bridle tapes are too tight there may be not enough weight from the wippen to seat the key back on the bolster cloth. ( Hence no lost motion) Some of the lesser quality consoles seem to need the weight of both the hammer butt assembly and wippen to get the key back to rest. This problem will also effect key level and dip. Adjusting lost motion can be classified as fudge 101.  Do what you can to make the piano reasonably playable and move on. Regards Roger. At 03:24 PM 5/4/2006, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Greetings,               Thanks for the suggestion on manipulating the hammer rest rail. I put a washer as a spacer behind the action bracket in the way right treble. Boy did that clear up the treble closeness, it seemed to help throughout the rest of the rail too.               Also, upon closer examination, I pulled on the rail, and there was negative lost motion. I put some lost motion in a few of the keys and kept track of the degree of turn, then I went through and turned down all the capstans by 3/4 of a turn and the blow distance is now much more consistent; within 1/32" of the selected 1 3/4"   Thanks again, Julia Gottshall, Reading, PA    </blockquote></body> </html>