<HTML><HTML>In a message dated 9/8/2004 9:58:21= PM Eastern Daylight Time, hullfam5@yahoo.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">My experience has been that a p= iano that has not been played for a number of years may be sluggish at first. Some of this sluggishness may clear up with playing, but if the touch is just heavy, I don't likely to be due to not being played. Heavy touch is more an issue of things like damper timing, key leading, regulation, tight key bushings, tight hammer flange pinning/bushing, etc.  It is good to just begin going down a list of possibilities for why and check each one to find the cause.  Sometimes you can just feel in your finger where the problem is. </BLOCKQUOTE> YES, well put. Julia, Reading, PA</HTML>