<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>On Saturday, I encountered a problem I haven't experienced before.  On two separate pianos, a single tuning pin would turn, but the pitch wouldn't, until much later.  Test blows had no significant effect.  On one piano, I muted the string, since it was an outside string, and I would not see it again for a while.  On the other, I got it to pitch, or so I thought.  Since I would see it again (it's at my church), I didn't mute it, but figured I'd retouch it before it was used next.  And, of course, that note drifted noticeably.  The first piano was a spinet that hadn't been tuned in a while, and the second was a Steinway M that I have tuned fairly regularly, and have not experienced this problem before.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>What did I do to cause that phenomenon (apparently on the Steinway, the problem is mine), and what can I do to fix it?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks in advance for all the help available from this list.</DIV> <DIV>Richard Morgan</DIV></div><br> <hr size=1>Don't pick lemons.<br> See all the <a href="http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc=X3oDMTE0OGRsc3F2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3Y2Fycw--">new 2007 cars</a> at <a href="http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc=X3oDMTE0OGRsc3F2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3Y2Fycw--">Yahoo! Autos.</a></body></html>