<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3020" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There was a recent tread on how much a piano will drop in pitch over the years. This afternoon I have an appointment to tune a piano the owner bought new 28 years ago, and she knows for a fact (or at least that what she says) that it has never been tuned. I'll report back.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1978 Kimball spinet. Her parents bought it for her new when she was a kid. She has owned it for 20 years. She knows it has not been tuned in the past 20 years. She thinks that her parents had not had it tuned in the first eight years either, but was not sure. From the way it sounded, my guess is that they had not had it tuned!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bass was 80 cents flat. Tenor was 100 cents flat. Treble ranged from 130 to 180 cents flat.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Two pitch raises and a "fine" tuning (as y'all know, one doesn't fine tune an instrument like this!).</FONT></DIV> <DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Terry, let me guess that you'll find this piano 100 cents flat after tuning.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jesse Gitnik</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I left it right at A441.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Why would it be 100 cents flat after tuning?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>