<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19088"></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>Hello all, hope some one can help!!!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Octave 5 just above the tenor strut for about 8 or 9 notes just keeps changing and going flat.  At first I suspected a crack in the plate at the hitch pin area.  Close inspection revealed no crack that I could see.  There was a small separation (about a 16th") between the pinblock and three treble back posts which I have seen quite often on these 45" studio uprights (my own Everett included).  I clamped the back together and removed the long screws at the top of the plate and installed 3/8" carriage bolts. It closed up the separation completely.  I checked the pressure bar screws to see if they were stripped and was able to get about 1/2 turn on ones in the suspect area and the pitch came up 20-30 cents in that area. But they were not stripped.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ah haa, problem solved I thought.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I lowered the pitch in octave 5 back down and tuned the whole piano.  The next day the customer called and said those notes were very out of tune again.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>No obvious separation of bridges and no cracks in soundboard.  Any ideas on what I may be missing???</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Randy Mangus, RPT</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>