Let me introduce myself.

[Clyde Hollinger]

I can ditto this.  When I started this occupation, a majority of the pianos I
tuned hadn't been serviced for years.  Nowadays over 90% of my work is on pianos
that I've tuned before, some annually (or semi-annually) for many years.  It's
getting more and more common to find pianos less than three cents off before I
start tuning.

Of course part of this is due to tuning the piano the same month of each year.
I expect they could be considerably farther out of tune at the extremes of the
seasons.

Regards,
Clyde

Farrell wrote:

> One thing I have observed is that when starting out, one is often tuning
> pianos that are not often tuned. If you are doing pitch raises on these
> pianos (even small ones) the high treble will simply not be stable. A decent
> piano that is tuned once a year or more often will be so much more stable in
> this area.