<HTML><HEAD></HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER= -LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none"> <P><BR>Actually that may have been the factory stringing..."Made In Ame= rica By American Craftsman"   Aeolian....</P> <P>David I.<BR><BR></P> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5p= x; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: "Dave Davis" <DAVISTUNES@YAHOO.COM><BR>To: Pi= anotech <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: 9/13/2005 4:15:10 PM<BR>Subjec= t: Untuning a M&H<BR><BR> <DIV align=left>Hi Gang,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Today I tuned a mid-70's Mason & Hamlin BB at a church. S= everal years ago (before my time...) this piano wouldn't stay in tune, = so the church replaced it, and retired it to a multi-purpose room. I go= t to chatting with the sound-guy who told me that a former tuner told t= hem it wouldn't stay in tune because it is mounted on a grand dolly, an= d that since Mason and Hamliin's have that "star system" (tension reson= ator), every time they move the piano, it torques the whole rim an= d puts it out of tune.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sounds logical, right?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Davis, RPT</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>p.s. I wonder if the poor re-string job complete with loose coils = and strings riding up on the hitch pins a mm or two, and string renderi= ng problems would have any effect on tuning.  Hmmmmm.</DIV></DIV><= /BODY></HTML>