<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Oct 16, 2006, at 8:29 AM, Cy Shuster wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><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><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">This is common practice when shipping guitars. The lowered tension reduces the risk of damage -- or so I've heard... I may just be spreading another myth.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">--Cy--</SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>The notion of lowering tension I can understand (though I pointed out to the person that pianos shipped new from Asia and Europe to the US are shipped at or usually above standard pitch). What amused me particularly was the thought of checking where the pitch might just happen to be today, and recording it so that the New Zealand tech could re-tune to wherever that might have happened to be. Yep, you want it to sound just as bad tomorrow as it does today, or they'll get all nostalgic for the tooner they last used in Roswell 25 years ago <G>.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Fred</DIV></BODY></HTML>