Alain wrote:

>>>It is very easy to have a dogleg without this disadvantage, if the lower manual is mobile, you can have dogleg benefits without any disadvantage, and you have a lighter action with two 8' or two 8' and 4'.

I believe Keith Hill has built several instruments that work this way.  However I'm not sure how the mechanism functions.  Can you explain how the movable lower manual disengages the front 8 dogleg jacks?

dk

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