Setting Dip on the Bench

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<< Does anyone have a reliable method of setting key dip (grand) on the bench
so that it remains accurate when the action is moved back to the piano?  I'd
sure love to retire from sitting down at eye level to the key bed.  >>

Greetings, 
     I use the aftertouch priority method, and if I set the end keys of each 
section in the piano, then I can get very close by shimming on the bench to 
re-establish that dimension and fill in the middle of the section.  HOwever, for 
top end work, I don't think there is a substitute for doing it in the piano.  
Especially when you are dealing with +/- .002" over the compression variable 
of the punching.   I do find that the crescendo punchings are favored by my 
customers.  
Regards,



Ed Foote RPT 
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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