<!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 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For the newbies, and seasoned vets to = chuckle over:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK, here's a little  mystery = question for you regarding the weird feeling action of a Small Baldwin grand piano.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I arrived today for a regulation job at = customer's house. Took a quick tour of the action with my fingers, and proclaimed = the action a mess. Let off  appeared to be about a half an inch from = the strings, Drop was really low and keys were pretty much evenly low from = factory spec, but just slightly, dip was a very fat 3/8". But here's = the weird thing that caught me off guard for a few mystifying moments: The hammers = were already adjusted to be a 1 3/4" to 1 7/8" and were pretty much in a good = straight line. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yikes! I thought. Where am I going to = get enough whippen lift from??? OK, that was the quickie analysis. What was wrong = with the action set up as it was? Original hammers, and not too worn, by the way.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joseph Alkana = RPT</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>