I was going to say out of this, however, in the light of positive comments, respect and trust, coming from James Grebe, Dean May, Bill Fritz and Gerald Groot....... I just had to say a huge, huge thank you. Lastly, over 90% of my - first - time customers have not had their pianos tuned somewhere between - 2 - to - 25 years. And anywhere between - 50 cents - to - 300 cents flat - and - cents even confuses me at times, so anywhere between - a whole step flat - to - 3 whole steps flat. So are you aural tuners going to tell me - that - in - one - pass - with - checks - can make this piano sound reasonably good to the customer - my mind says "NO WAY" Speaking of - checks - in the beginning, I once tuned a piano that was nearly 300 cents flat. As I started from A0 and kept going up the scale, I - would - do some checks - which sounded horrible. My mentor said "trust me, by the time you get to the end, it will change enough on its own to sound really good." Sure enough, by the time I was done, in - one - pass, the checks sounded pretty descent and the overall tuning was pretty damn good. Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler at att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 11 years
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