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11:00 PM, Leslie Bartlett wrote:</DIV><BR =
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style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" =
size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Could two days in relatively =
low humidity, with no</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px =
0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px =
Helvetica">heat or air, make that kind of difference?</FONT></P> <P =
style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" =
size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">les</FONT></P> <BR =
class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Absolutely=
.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Les, my =
first year here I did my recital tunings in the mornings before 10:00 =
and they could be so bad by the time recitals began at 4:30 just from =
the climate difference caused by student classes going and coming during =
the day, that I would be embarrassed. Lately, as I've done tunings in =
the hall, the piano detunes itself drastically (I call 3-5 cents pretty =
drastic) before I can even get two octaves, just from having the lid =
open. It's detuning in the opposite direction from an overpull, so =
that's not the reason for it. This is a piano that given reasonably =
stable climate is the single most stable instrument I ever tune. When =
the hall gets really busy during more stable times of the year, I might =
have to let it go a week between tunings and it does just fine, whereas =
it's been getting three tunings a week the past three weeks and won't =
stay in tune for love nor money.</DIV><DIV><BR =
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I realize your situation is =
in a home, which would normally be more stable, but without having a way =
to measure what's been going on in between appointments, it is =
impossible to know what that piano has been going through. Do you =
normally tune for this customer in summer and winter?</DIV><DIV><BR =
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I compare our climate to =
yours because all too often we get what ya'll are having 1 or 2 days =
later.</DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" =
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RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR =
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