Well, if you tune a piano that's 50c flat, you don't just "follow the steps" of bringing the piano "to pitch." While it might not make sense to a lay person (e.g. a piano owner/player) that you need to bring it over pitch to have it wind up at/near pitch, it's a well-known fact to piano techs (and one that is quite difficult for me to try to explain to those lay owners.) Likewise in regulation, if (a) affects (b) affects (c) affects (a), then any worthwhile tech who is regulating a piano will go back and check/adjust (a) after doing (c). That's what the exams are all about, isn't it?? Making sure someone doesn't just learn a rote HOW method?? Rather that we learn the WHYs as well. Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 7, 2008 2:43 PM, Israel Stein <<a href="mailto:custos3@comcast.net">custos3@comcast.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> At 07:44 AM 2/7/2008, you wrote: <blockquote type="cite">Mike,   Have you been to LRS?  The 37 steps instructs to go back to..., check this, etc.  Just like someone said earlier...   Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, Illinois</blockquote> Then why title it and present it as if it were a linear sequence? I think Yamaha is sending a mixed message here that is responsible for an awful lot of confusion and misunderstanding among piano technicians. You call something "37 steps" and an awful lot of people are going to think that you do the steps - and then you are finished. And I see a lot of evidence that this is actually happening. Israel Stein <blockquote type="cite"> <dl> <dd><div class="Ih2E3d">I guess that's why I prefer Kawai's circle of refinement to Yamaha's 37 steps, in the circle of refinement you are seeking to regulate/adjust/refine as needed to bring the action to the point of functioning properly rather than  following a list of steps some of which may seem/be superfluous. In the circle of refinement it is not unheard of to repeat/redo and adjustment after performing some of the other adjustments, it's considered another step on the road to refinement. </div></dd><dd>  </dd><dd>Mike </dd><dd>-- </dd><dd>Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. </dd><dd>Michael Magness </dd><dd>Magness Piano Service </dd><dd>608-786-4404 </dd><dd><a href="http://www.IFixPianos.com" target="_blank">www.IFixPianos.com</a> </dd><dd>email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com" target="_blank">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </dd></dl></blockquote></div> </blockquote></div>