<html>  <head></head> <body>  <DIV>List,</DIV> <DIV>I'm going on a slight rant here ,so get comfortable. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>New Acrosonic with "stealth action", the one with all the parts painted black. ( to make it so easy to see things)</DIV> <DIV>This has to be the worst thought out and idiotic construction design  I 've yet to see, ( and I'm including Whitney spinet , and anything that came out of China in the 70's.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So anyway, I tune the piano, and the woman says "this note is not right". Turns out she plays sooo lightly that the hammer bubbles . I adjust let off and get ready to leave, when she says... "it's not right". The problem is that the dampers are lifting very late, and causing a kind of blocking sound. I go to adjust the spoons and can't get the tool to grab, so I decide to remove the action and adjust them that way.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>BIG MISTAKE!!   Have you ever seen the action bolts on this beauty? A threaded shaft the goes into the plate with a large knurled knob. Knobs were too tight to remove by hand and when I finally got them off (using pliers) the bolts would not line up with the holes when it was time to put it back in.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I decided to lower the action rest bolts to allow the threads to line up . This worked pretty well, but then the key dip seemed too deep, and hammers were blocking. Also the hammer line looked uneven.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Taking  the cheek blocks and fallboard out was another lesson in frustration.</DIV> <DIV>Anyway, I got this shinning example of piano design back together and got the thing working reasonably well, but what is the connection between the rest bolts and key dip?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>4 hrs.(including tuning) $85  Not a great day.</DIV> <DIV>Thanks,</DIV> <DIV>Rick Ucci/ Ucci Piano </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>   </DIV>  </body> </html>