Weird detuning

[Tom Myler]

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Graham <magraham@bw.edu>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Monday, December 22, 1997 8:13 AM
Subject: Weird detuning


>I tuned a Mason & Hamlin A grand last Thursday for a longtime customer who
>is an excellent pianist. There was a call on the answering machine Friday
>that something was wrong with the tuning. I went this morning (Monday) and
>found he wasn't kidding. Four notes in the middle were painfully out. On
>two of them, one string was fine, one string was grossly flat, and one
>string was grossly sharp. One other had the center string grossly flat and
>the other two OK. The fourth had one severely sharp string, two others
>flat.


SNIP


>Help me. My own sanity is at stake here.
>Mark Graham


A human being with a tool of some sort tampered with your tuning.   

I'd bet on it.