> I just have not found that moving causes the piano to go out of tune. -------------reply: I'm with the people who wait. In addition to the bending stresses in lighter pianos, each home has its own microclimate. It takes so little change to change the tuning of a piano. After all, you've all probably gotten through most of a tuning only to have the heater or air conditioner turn on, and the middle of the scale moves audibly. Changing houses (or even rooms) finds the piano in a wetter/dryer/hotter/colder place, and maybe the new home requires more heating or air conditioning, or has a shower or dryer vent or kitchen closer to the piano, etc., etc., so it seems a matter of extreme luck to me if the piano stays in tune even on a trip across town. Not to mention the trip in an open/closed truck, which is hotter/colder. Not to mention a trip across the country to a different climate. A piano that is "driven" out of tune (excuse the pun) doesn't come back exactly even when the previous conditions are returned. As for the time lag, most of the change occurs in a few minutes to an hour, but I'm not comfortable with a piano's stability for a few days to a week or more, depending on the amount of change. Bob Davis Stockton, CA
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