<HTML>In a message dated 1/24/03 2:53:16 PM Central Standard Time, jminor@uiuc.edu writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Anyone find tuning is less stable at extreme low humidity? Say around 12%RH. Our instrument seems more unstable than usual, even while I'm tuning. Our main building is running 8%RH these days. I've been trying to get them to deal with it, but no luck. John Minor University of Illinois </BLOCKQUOTE> This dry cold is making my life miserable. Last week I did nothing but one pitch raise after another in the practice rooms, and as I'm walking by them, I can hear most of the pianos out of tune already. And I tune these once a month. This morning I tuned a teacher's piano that was tuned in August. It was 35 cents low. I raised the pitch and gave it a tuning. I hope he's satisfied. This afternoon, I tuned our concert grand, which I tuned last week, and it was 6 cents low. I raised pitch, 1.5 cents, and did an Ed "close" tuning, and it settled at A440. One of our voice faculty is practicing this weekend, and the piano will get a good going over on Tuesday, just before her recital. But I know it will be way out by then. And I've just got 75 pianos. What are some of you guys doing with 100 or more pianos? Are you getting time off for good behavior later? Wim </HTML>