diff --git a/src/components/GlanceRail.jsx b/src/components/GlanceRail.jsx
index fb0fe9f..87b0e1e 100644
--- a/src/components/GlanceRail.jsx
+++ b/src/components/GlanceRail.jsx
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 // GlanceRail — ALL loop stations expanded, always (task D-41, per
 // docs/design/integrated-glance.md §4; supersedes the L-33 playhead accordion).
 //
+// D-51 (docs/design/one-screen.md §4/§6.2) adapts the rail to the dashboard's
+// 500px right column. Margin-hardening arithmetic, worst case = a classic
+// Windows scrollbar (~17px) inside the column's overflow-y-auto wrapper:
+//   row interior = 500 − 17 (scrollbar) − 18 (section border + p-2)
+//                − 14 (row border + p-1.5) = 451px
+//   guitar cell 89 (75 SVG + p-1.5 + border) → 4/line (374 ≤ 451; a 5th = 469 ✗)
+//   piano 1-octave 156.4 / 2-octave 279.6 → the mixed pair 279.6+6+156.4 = 442
+//   fits with ~9px margin even under the scrollbar (26px without) — the fit the
+//   doc calls fragile at the old paddings is now robust. Without the scrollbar
+//   the interior is 468px; every count above is unchanged.
+//
 // One VERTICAL ROW per loop station, canonical KB order (the same order the
 // banner's loop shows after rotation). Every row renders its full voicing
 // gallery PERMANENTLY — the playhead HIGHLIGHTS the active row (accent ring +
@@ -149,7 +160,7 @@ function StationRow({
         `${st.label}${st.rn ? ` (${st.rn})` : ''} — every ${instrument} voicing` +
         `${isNow ? ', now playing' : ''}${isNext ? ', up next' : ''}`
       }
-      className={`rounded-lg border p-2 ${stateClass}`}
+      className={`rounded-lg border p-1.5 ${stateClass}`}
       style={{ opacity: isNow || isFocused ? 1 : 0.85 }}
     >
       {/* ── Header line: identity + the folded roadmap education ── */}
@@ -190,11 +201,19 @@ function StationRow({
         <TransitionChip pair={rail} wraps={wraps} />
       </div>
 
-      {/* ── Gallery: own-voicing cell + the full dense browser; cells WRAP,
-             never scroll horizontally (D-40 §4). ── */}
-      <div className="flex flex-wrap items-start gap-2">
+      {/* ── Gallery: own-voicing cell FIRST (the recommended cell — full-accent
+             border reads as "the answer", one-screen.md §4; same size, no new
+             colour) + the full dense browser; cells WRAP, never scroll
+             horizontally (D-40 §4). Browser basis 320px: a guitar own-cell
+             (89px) still shares line one (89+6+320 = 415 ≤ 451) so the first
+             visual line shows play + 3 shapes = 4 across, while a piano
+             own-cell (≥156.4px) can never share it (156.4+6+320 = 482.4 > 468
+             even scrollbar-free) — the recommended voicing sits alone on line
+             one, prominence for free, and the gallery pairs at the FULL row
+             interior below it (the 279.6+156.4 mixed-pair fit needs all 451px). ── */}
+      <div className="flex flex-wrap items-start gap-1.5">
         {(ownGuitar || ownPiano) && (
-          <figure className="flex shrink-0 flex-col items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md border border-accent/60 bg-surface p-2">
+          <figure className="flex shrink-0 flex-col items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md border border-accent bg-surface p-1.5">
             <figcaption className="flex max-w-full items-center gap-1.5 text-[11px] font-medium leading-tight text-gray-300">
               {ownGuitar && (
                 <span className="rounded bg-accent px-1 py-0.5 text-[9px] font-bold uppercase tracking-wider text-black">
@@ -210,7 +229,7 @@ function StationRow({
             )}
           </figure>
         )}
-        <div className="min-w-0 flex-1 basis-[300px]">
+        <div className="min-w-0 flex-1 basis-[320px]">
           {/* dense: the rail shows the mic-feedback microcopy once, below. */}
           <VoicingBrowser rootPc={st.rootPc} quality={st.quality} show={instrument} dense />
         </div>
@@ -243,7 +262,7 @@ export default function GlanceRail({
 
   return (
     <section
-      className="rounded-2xl border border-border bg-panel p-3"
+      className="rounded-2xl border border-border bg-panel p-2"
       aria-label="Voicing variations — every chord of the loop, all expanded"
     >
       <h4 className="mb-2 text-[10px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-widest text-gray-500">
diff --git a/src/components/VoicingBrowser.jsx b/src/components/VoicingBrowser.jsx
index d907d7c..0002b01 100644
--- a/src/components/VoicingBrowser.jsx
+++ b/src/components/VoicingBrowser.jsx
@@ -46,8 +46,13 @@
 //             section chrome (border/panel background/heading — the row header
 //             already names the chord) and suppresses the per-mount
 //             mic-feedback microcopy (the rail shows it ONCE for the whole
-//             rail, D-31 §2.5). Every pre-existing mount renders identically
-//             with no prop.
+//             rail, D-31 §2.5). D-51 (one-screen.md §4) additionally tightens
+//             the DENSE cell spacing for the 500px right column — cell p-2 →
+//             p-1.5 and gallery gap-2 → gap-1.5 — which hardens the column's
+//             two-octave + one-octave piano pair fit (279.6 + 6 + 156.4 = 442
+//             ≤ 451px row interior even with a classic Windows scrollbar in
+//             the rail's scroller; it was 452 vs 456, a ~4px squeak, before).
+//             Every pre-existing mount renders identically with no prop.
 
 import { useEffect, useMemo, useRef } from 'react'
 import ChordDiagram from './ChordDiagram'
@@ -126,9 +131,11 @@ function SectionHeading({ children }) {
 // One gallery cell: label on top, diagram thumb, its own ▶ underneath.
 // bg-surface inside the bg-panel section gives the cells a quiet inlay border;
 // label is gray-300 on surface (AA comfortable at 11px semibold).
-function GalleryCell({ label, playLabel, onPlay, children }) {
+// `dense` (D-51): p-1.5 instead of p-2 — 4px off each cell's box width, part of
+// the right-column margin-hardening. Non-dense output is byte-identical.
+function GalleryCell({ label, playLabel, onPlay, dense = false, children }) {
   return (
-    <figure className="flex min-w-0 flex-col items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md border border-border bg-surface p-2">
+    <figure className={`flex min-w-0 flex-col items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md border border-border bg-surface ${dense ? 'p-1.5' : 'p-2'}`}>
       <figcaption
         className="max-w-full break-words text-center text-[11px] font-medium leading-tight text-gray-300"
         title={label}
@@ -228,7 +235,7 @@ export default function VoicingBrowser({ rootPc = 0, quality = 'maj', show = 'bo
           <div
             role="group"
             aria-label={`${name} guitar shapes — every shape shown, each playable`}
-            className="flex flex-wrap items-stretch gap-2"
+            className={`flex flex-wrap items-stretch ${dense ? 'gap-1.5' : 'gap-2'}`}
           >
             {guitarShapes.map((shape, i) => (
               <GalleryCell
@@ -236,6 +243,7 @@ export default function VoicingBrowser({ rootPc = 0, quality = 'maj', show = 'bo
                 label={shape.label}
                 playLabel={`Play ${name} — ${shape.label} guitar voicing`}
                 onPlay={() => playGuitar(shape)}
+                dense={dense}
               >
                 <ChordDiagram shape={shape} rootPc={pc} size="thumb" />
               </GalleryCell>
@@ -260,7 +268,7 @@ export default function VoicingBrowser({ rootPc = 0, quality = 'maj', show = 'bo
         <div
           role="group"
           aria-label={`${name} piano voicings — every style shown, each playable`}
-          className="flex flex-wrap items-stretch gap-2"
+          className={`flex flex-wrap items-stretch ${dense ? 'gap-1.5' : 'gap-2'}`}
         >
           {/* pianoVoicing() output carries no rootPc, and without it VoicingPiano
               falls back to the LOWEST voice for its "R" badge — wrong for rootless
@@ -271,6 +279,7 @@ export default function VoicingBrowser({ rootPc = 0, quality = 'maj', show = 'bo
               label={voicing.label}
               playLabel={`Play ${name} — ${voicing.label} piano voicing`}
               onPlay={() => playPiano(voicing)}
+              dense={dense}
             >
               <MiniPiano voicing={{ ...voicing, rootPc: pc }} size="thumb" />
             </GalleryCell>