<!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 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for your input Keith. I suspect = you are quite right about the fatigue factor. I'm not a concert level pianist = myself but the piano I was looking at is used by a music festival and the teachers = were complaining that the pedal was too hard to play. I first suspected that = they were complaining because the younger students would mostly have older = uprights at home and would not be used to a better grand with a stiffer pedal.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This particular piano also suffers from = a surfeit of cardboard punchings  on the front rail- enough to choke a = good- sized chipmunk. That's what caused me to start thinking about the key = height. I suspect that correcting the height by measuring from the height of the = key-slip bed will correct all the other complaints the owners have had from = people who play their piano, most typically that it is too stiff.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tim- tuning to stay warm in Canada.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>