Hi list: Thank you for all your valuable suggestions. I'm going to talk to the tuner and find out if he's "underpaid". Ironically, I heard him talking with another guy about planting trees in his backyard a day or two before the concert. This guy, in his 50's or 60's is a RPT (although he never showed up in meetings) and, as far as I can tell, he knows ALOT and has tons of experience. I've seen those broken strings he connected, it's truely amazing (either he was trying to save school piano wires or he didn't want to go back to his studio to get strings). If he doesn't convince me then I'm going to write letters. As far as tuning the piano myself, I'm afraid it's not a good idea because someone might say "I saw this kid messing up with this beautiful Steiway D the other day. Now there's a crack in the bass bridge." Until I become a RPT myself, I should only tune those pianos in practice rooms (Stability is a real challenge). Right now I have to learn more about repairing (this list is an invaluable source to me), tunning shouldn't be a problem for me (I have tuned since when I was 14 or so, my first victim was a brand new 7'X" Boesendorfer :p ). regards Kuang
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