<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"> Whats your key ratio David ?.. You might be lucky here and be able to get away with a quick move of the capstans in a couple of mils. If you are regulating well at a shallow dip then thats a good indicator that you have some room to move here. Otherwise... it would be helpfull to have a few othere parameters like Strike Weights, knuckle placement and radius, Front Weights and the like. Cheers RicB "David M. Porritt" wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE> I have a Baldwin SF-10 here on which I just measured the action weight.  C4 is 60 grams down, 45 grams up!  Friction -- obviously is good -- down weight bad.  I hate adding lots of lead to the keys, but on this piano there are only 3 weights in the bass section, 2 at C4, only 1 in the upper treble, and actually 2 in the _back_ of C8.  It appears that they did straight pattern leading on this one.  I can add 1 - 2 weights to each key and bring it down to 44 at A0, 42 at C4 and 40 at B7 (I'd probably just take out a back weight on C8). There is a point of diminishing returns on some actions where you can reduce downweight by adding leads but the additional inertia makes it feel to the player as though it is as heavy as it was before.  Does anyone think I'd get into inertia problems adding this amount of lead? dave <pre>_____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________</pre> </blockquote>     -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A>   </body> </html>