<!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 6.00.6000.16441" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I went to a chapter get-together yesterday, in Lansing, MI (James Reeder's shop), and saw a Mason Screw-stringer grand!  A first for me, and wondered how you tune one of these beasts.  Amazing sustain in this old beast, when plucking strings.  Didn't see a tuning lever with it, though.  Wonder where it was hidden?  Clark Sprague</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE 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 style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=david@davidandersenpianos.com href="mailto:david@davidandersenpianos.com">David Andersen</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:13 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Mason & Hamlin Screwstringer</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><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: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 16px Helvetica" face=Helvetica size=5>"Just tune it."</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span>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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>