<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>For your amusement, following is an emailed inquiry I received today:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> We would appreciate your opinion on some advice we have received from Richard Hutton at Crown Relocations.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">The following is what Richard told us: </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B><I>I have found some information regarding your parents piano. If they contact a member of the 'Piano Tuners and Technicians Guild' (this link will list those members in NM < </I></B></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.ptg.org/findATechnician-showRPT.php?State=NM&Sort=zip"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0032DC"><B><I>http://www.ptg.org/findATechnician-showRPT.php?State=NM&Sort=zip</I></B></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B><I> >). Ask the piano tuner to then make a note of the 'pitch' of the piano (in it's current setting) and then to 'drop the pitch' - this is loosening the strings. The when the piano arrives here in NZ you can have a piano tuner re-set the 'pitch' back to it's original setting.</I></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B><I><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></I></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>I've heard of using "original parts," but reverting to "original pitch" is a new one on me <G>. So that's what I've been missing all these years!</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>It does show that the Piano Page gets used, even internationally. Maybe we're making some progress.</DIV><DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Regards,</DIV><DIV>Fred Sturm</DIV><DIV>University of New Mexico</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>