Leveling the Keys

Our keys now are balanced and come up to their rest positions after being depressed. However, if you look at the keyboard from the front – with all of the keys at rest – you’ll see that the keys are still not level. We’ll now level the keys so it looks like they’re a single block of wood instead of individual keys.

It’s hard to level the keys if they’re not sitting on a level surface so I like to level the keys on my tablesaw table, which is the flattest large object in my shop. (Of course, the blade is retracted below the table’s surface, and the saw is unplugged while doing this leveling)

The distance between the top surface of the table saw table and the top surface of the ebony key covers should be about 2 3/16” [55.5mm]. There are 30 natural keys.