<HTML>List, There have been many, many posts about touch-weight, key leading, etc. i= n the last few days.  Some of it I get, and some of it, well, let's jus= t say it eludes me.  It is sinking in gradually. I have a job that may require a real-world application of some of the th= eroetical situations that have been posted.  I will probably be flamed = for not looking in the archives, the Journal, or other resources, but--cover= ed up asbestos(sorry...:-) I know how--here goes: I have a friend who plays piano at a restaurant.  It's a new Henry = F. Miller--actually a Pearl River, I believe--petite grand(she called it a "= Harry Potter, or something" when I asked her to describe it to me).  Su= e complained about the heaviness of the touch, which surprised me until she = asked me to sit in for a tune.  I wasn't able to get the gram weights o= ut at dinner hour last night, but I'd be willing to wager that it's up aroun= d 75-80 grams touch weight.  Playing it is like weightlifting. It is a rental piano, and the restaurant owner doesn't want to spend muc= h money on getting it to work any better.  I'd like to help my friend o= ut, though, and experiment a bit in the process.  I haven't been able t= o get in to assess the cause of the heaviness, but it does not feel like fri= ction.  I am going to tune it and give it a minor regulation within a c= ouple of weeks, at which time I'll have more info.   Has anybody worked on one of these?  Any suggestions for lightening= the action without major surgery would be appreciated. Thanks, Dave Stahl </HTML>