In a message dated 01/12/2001 4:15:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu writes: > You'll still have to do it by the Braille system, but > it can be done. It's too hard to see through the regulating buttons, so I like to do it from overhead. In the shop, I plop the action onto two sawhorses. I stand at the rear of the action, looking down. I am right-handed, so I stand facing the treble, and reach over to adjust with my right hand. With my left, I depress the adjacent repetition lever so I can see how the jack relates to the knuckle on the one I am adjusting. I can easily see the (thin) tool engage the jack. It goes easily. Usually when I have finished a section, I rest my left hand lightly on the hammers, and push the keys with my right (with the tool still in my hand, held out of the way). This makes sure none of the jacks cheat. Elsewhere, I either use a low table, or turn the action around in the keybed and do the same thing, although in the keybed I turn it back around, resting the center rail on the keybed and the front rail on my knee, to check for cheating. Bob Davis
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