<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 15, 2007, at 4:57 AM, J Patrick Draine wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">"Just tune it."</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Yeah. Uhhh.....that doesn't work with these beasts. They will tune,and hold, magnificently, if you get the protocol down---it's a challenge. You have to move the pin---then wait, and keep playing the note, and wait, and THEN the pitch will change---the challenge is the wait; we're so used to getting instant change when we move the pin that it's <B>way</B> counter-intuitive to wait, but that's what's required here; I tuned 2 of these beasts for over 15 years---they hold better than any upright piano ever---amazing stability, but I never spent less than 2.5 hours on a tuning---and charged double.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>David Andersen</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>