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[Keith McGavern]

Corte,

I'd say you're getting pretty good mileage considering the 
particulars you've given.

You're definitely asking too much for six months.

The only way you're going to increase stability on the unisions to 
any greater degree is rendering the strings rock solid. Even at that, 
played daily (amount of time and aggressiveness), environment and 
stability of instrument always takes its toll for even the best of 
tuners.

Regards,

Keith McGavern
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
USA

At 7:37 AM -0500 8/19/03, cswearingen@daigger.com wrote:
>Hi Don (and everyone),
>
>Ok, in my case, I'm a fairly new tuner (and a part-time tuner at that).  My
>own piano is a Yamaha U1 and I have a Dampp-Chaser system installed.  I
>tune my piano about every 2 or 3 months ... Many times, I notice 
>unisons starting to go out
>slightly after only a few weeks of playing (the piano gets played daily).
>Would most of you experienced tuners consider this normal or would you
>expect a piano with a Dampp-Chaser to remain in tune for longer?  In your
>opinion, should an experienced tuner be able to get a tuning that stays
>right on for 6 months or is this asking too much?