<html><head><base href="x-msg://37/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Was it new when you started tuning it? (I mean to say: How old is it?). You've checked plate bolts, right? <div>Laura<br><div><div>On Sep 8, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Leslie Bartlett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1" style="page: Section1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; ">I’ve been tuning a C6 for 7 years or more, and it has every time been h*** to tune, and a 3-hour job. Nothing will stay stable. I’ve been doing it every two months now for awhile and today was the second time I didn’t have to go through each string on second pass. Is it possible that the agraffes have been ground so sharply that one can’t get a stable termination point? I’m a decent tuner and have done some mean pianos, but this one has left me befuddled. Any sage advice?????? I think it will be replaced by the first of the year, but I’ll still be dealing with it for some time.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; ">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; ">Les bartlett<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "><br clear="all"></span></font><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>