<html> <body> Knowing Baldwin, the bore distance was probably wrong & you're going to have to compromise "almost" everything to get it work out decently! Avery At 07:47 PM 2/28/2006, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">  For the newbies, and seasoned vets to chuckle over:     OK, here's a little  mystery question for you regarding the weird feeling action of a Small Baldwin grand piano.   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.   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.   Joseph Alkana RPT</blockquote></body> </html>