Newton writes: <<I originally posted this observation, that FAC values, especially the A, change with the humidity changes from 15% to 85% on the same piano in the same room. At a university tuners tune the same piano time after time after time and some things become obvious in that setting that do not otherwise.>> Hmm. I dunno. The first example that comes to mind here is a 1910 9' Chickering with an Al Sanderson scale and rock hard hammers. This piano is used in a recording studio and is known as one of the really "hot" country pianos for recording work here in Nashville. I tune this piano about 100-150 times a year, and was tuning the piano aurally from about 1978 until my SAT arrived in 1992, at which time, I recorded my working tuning and began using the machine. The producers and players have never noticed a difference through all ranges of humidity over this time, and neither have I. This may be because there are none, or it may (more likely) be that I didn't know where to look to hear it (:/}}} What changes would show themselves aurally ? Does A's inharmonicity go up or down with a rise in humidity? (Thinking, What have I been missing...................?.) Ed Foote
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