<HTML>In a message dated 6/5/02 8:07:03 AM Central Daylight Time, lesbart1@juno.com (Leslie W Bartlett) writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">So, two passes, from 100 cents out, and he says it should last, on most pianos, a year. </BLOCKQUOTE> Take it from me, the ultimate cynic that this is wishful thinking.  I might concede that for the customer/circumstances he was referring to, his job "worked".  But really, if his technique were that good and solid, you'd run out of pianos that ever needed tuning in your area after a while. The truth is that it would take a *minimum* of 4 passes with even the best of pitch raise programs or aural techniques just to arrive at something barely passable as a fine tuning.  This tuning would inevitably begin to change and settle almost immediately.  No tuning ever lasts for 365 days under any circumstances, anywhere. If, on the one hand, this fellow is such a high falootin' musically superior professional, what the heck is he doing trying to tune a piano which is 1/2 step low?  That is a *seriously* substandard state for a piano to be found in.  The first question I'd be asking is *why* is it so low?  Someone mentioned that raising the pitch 100 cents would add about a ton or so.  Actually, it is more like 4 tons!  Who in his right mind could ever claim that he just went in and *hot dogged* a piano up 100 cents and it stayed in tune perfectly for an entire year?  Sheeesh! I haven't seen one opinion yet that says this is possible.  The consensus seem to be that this is a highly inflated claim. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-</A> </HTML>