Buy yourself a good quality hygrometer and take that with you on all visits marking what it shows somewhere in the piano and in your records for proof on each visit. I mark it as 75/23. 75 temp and 23 RH. I bought the one on the top right. http://www.pianoteksupply.com/assets/pdf/humiditycontrol.pdf Pianos change not only with humidity but temperature changes as well as opened windows, doors and many other things. It's been 3 months since the last visit. It will be flat and out of tune. Here in Michigan, it would have been at around 40% or more yet in October. Now, it's down into the low 20's and teen's for RH. I would not give a discount for tuning it again. It will require a full pitch raise and a full tuning. Manufacturer's recommend tuning 2-4 times a year anyway. If she has a better ear than most people, consider changing the time of the year that she has it tuned so it will stay put longest and/or have her tune it more frequently. Jer Groot RPT -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 3:49 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Return visit List, Client calls today (piano teacher) , and says "My piano doesn't right". It was tuned 10/30/09, Kawai kg-2. We have just emerged from a two week bitter cold snap here in the NE, and many pianos have been 40+ cents flat that usually are not that bad in past years. She has forced air and a wood stove about two feet from the piano. She isn't buying my reply that the weather etc. is to blame. Of course she is an hour away, and I've arrainged to get to her next week. She is a once a year tuning; I could use some advice on how to handle this situation. Thanks, Rick Ucci/ Ucci Piano _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 100117-1, 01/17/2010 Tested on: 1/17/2010 5:57:20 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2010 ALWIL Software.
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