<HTML>Our mezzo is giving a recital this evening, with the accompanist, who is not a member of the faculty here, using our new D. This afternoon, after tuning the piano, I went home, because I'm sick with the flu and a bronchial condition. At 7 o'clock, the mezzo calls me, and says the low D on the piano is "funky" and could I come and fix it. I drive to school, (which is 15 minutes away), and meet with the accompanist. He says last piece ends with a loud d chord, and the low D continues to ring on. I play the note, and guess what? The damper stops the note, but it is the overtones that are continuing to ring, for at least 1.5 seconds. I tell him there is nothing wrong, and it's supposed to be that way. He says he has never heard it that loud and that long before on other pianos. I went over to our other D, and played the same note, with the same intensity, and had the same result, just to prove to him that they all sound that way. So if there is nothing wrong, and it's supposed to be that way, how do I explain that there is nothing wrong to an accomplished musician? Wim Univ. of Alabama. I'm going home to bed now. </HTML>