<!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 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV>I'm looking for suggestions, guidance, admonitions, whatever, please. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My piano for practicing tuning (and playing) is a 3 year old Pearl River upright (UP 118E, 47" ). It has developed murderous false beats in the temperament section making aural tuning practice impossible. The only thing I can really practice aurally at the moment is minimizing false beats in the unisons. There aren't enough intervals clean to let me get anywhere. All 3 strings on A4 are funky.  On many strings I just can't read a pitch with a resolution greater than 1 cent because of the oscillation. Some have a larger oscillation. I noticed it is much worse when the humidity increases. This piano does have a DC system that is always plugged in and working. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Logically, I guess the first thing to do would be to seat the strings. This will be somewhat difficult because of the location bridge pins for these strings relative to the keybed. I have ordered Joe Goss' string seating tool to help with that. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If I can't get it resolved, I'll certainly find the money in the budget to get someone from my chapter to come in and work on it. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thank you!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sara Nash</DIV> <DIV>Southeastern PA</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>