New, 1/2 price computers at "Best Buy".

[Avery]

Gordon,

Who's dumping their stock? Are you talking about computers
or pianos (as this message was!)

Avery Todd

At 05:41 PM 2/1/2007, you wrote:
>I heard they're dumping all their stock with the older
>operating system.
>      G
>
>
>--- John Ross <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> > I had one that I did a few years ago, it was over
> > 300c down in pitch, not even, flat. Actually, it
> > might even have been more than that. The first of
> > the pitch raises, some notes had to be taken up over
> > 200c.
> > I asked the guy, when it was last tuned, and he told
> > me, that it had never been tuned, and he remembered
> > when it was delivered, in 1929.
> > I brought it up, 1 semi-tone at a time, then a fine
> > tune. No strings broke, and he hasn't called me
> > since, even although, I told him, we were on catch
> > up, and it would take a few tunings for it to
> > stabilize.
> > John M. Ross
> > Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
> > jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: PIANOTECHNICIAN at aol.com
> >   To: pianotech at ptg.org ; BEATLSONGS at aol.com
> >   Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:20 AM
> >   Subject: Very interesting question--
> >
> >
> >   I wonder what the limit is as to how far flat a
> > piano will go if it is never tuned. Let's say a
> > piano was built in 1900, tuned many times in the
> > factory until the strings were stretched out and the
> > tune stabilized.
> >   If it were never tuned after that, would it reach
> > a point, let's say, in the 1960's, 70's, or 80's
> > where it would not go flat any more? And how flat
> > would it end up being -- 150 cents? 200 cents? I'm
> > curious because I've seen many old uprights that
> > were about 150 cents flat, and I wondered if they
> > were ever tuned over their 100 year lifetime.
> >
> >   Jesse Gitnik
> >   NYC
> >   Tech since 1980
> >
>
>
>
>
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