<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't know if this has been addressed = yet, but I'll bite. On a grand, the shanks must be up off the hammer rail, or = cushion. If they aren't, then yes you can get unlevel keys.  I remember one new = guy who was working on a chinese piano and he started leveling keys, and later = when he started the regulation, he learned the error of his ways.  = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no href="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no">Richard Brekne</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 30, 2004 = 8:11 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> re: First grand = regulation /Julie</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Regulating the capstan has nothing (should have nothing = :) ) to do with <BR>leveling keys.  If there is a gap between the capstan = and the whippen <BR>heel.. then something is pretty darn wrong... right here = in River City.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>