<html> <body> 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: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I heard they're dumping all their stock with the older operating system.      G --- John Ross <jrpiano@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@win.eastlink.ca >   ----- Original Message ----- >   From: PIANOTECHNICIAN@aol.com >   To: pianotech@ptg.org ; BEATLSONGS@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 >   ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. <a href="http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html" eudora="autourl"> http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html</a> </blockquote></body> </html>