<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charse= t=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2730.1700" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 1/15/2004 6:55:28 AM Pacific Standard Time, jminor@u= iuc.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid">recently tuned a Boston vertical model 111 and had a difficult ch= allenge<BR>in keeping the tuning where I put it. The piano was close to pitc= h with<BR>the low tenor being slightly sharp. This section kept creeping sha= rp even<BR>after multiple passes. The final pass found most notes in the tem= perament<BR>section to be 2 cents sharp. This is my 3rd tuning on this piano= in 2<BR>years and it is only 2 years old.<BR><BR>The home is kept at 57 deg= rees F during the day and 62 while occupied.<BR>Could this have a negative e= ffect on the tuning stability.<BR><BR>Anyone else struggle with this Boston = model?<BR><BR>John Minor<BR>University of Illinois<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV= > <DIV><FONT size=4>   Hi John</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=4>   I don't know if this is the same model but = our Modesto Junior College has 2 different styles of the Boston uprights. My= biggest beef is the hammers O stone and the short sustain time. It seems li= ke there always out of tune but I suspect the hammers have as much to do wit= h the tuning stability as the students who practice on them. I do know that = when I changed the hammers on a Yamaha p202 to a Ronsen hammer that the pian= o sounds way better & the tuning doesn't suffer as much. Tone is improve= d dramatically.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=4>   Dale</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>