<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Corte, I float the pitch if the situation warrants it, but I think you should use more than one note to decide where to leave the pitch of the piano.  I use RCT and check A1 through A6 before making my decision.  I am talking now about pianos that hover around A-440, not those that are in need of a pitchraise. Regards, Clyde Hollinger, RPT SUSAN P SWEARINGEN wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> Hello Everyone, I have a client and I service their very old beat-up grand, which they got for free.  The piano isn't all that stable but still can hold tune reasonably well. The owners claim they can't even tell when it's out of tune and that they have a friend that plays it and tells them when it's time to call the tuner. Whenever I usually get to the piano, it's usually out by 10 cents or so (I tune it once in the summer and once in the winter).  I'm thinking of just floating the pitch at wherever the "A" happens to be.  That would save me the trouble of pitch raising and adding instability to the instrument (since it is so old and not in great shape). What are the thoughts on this?  Am I, as a piano technician, not servicing the customer properly if I don't always tune to A-440?  Is it wrong to "cut corners" in this case even though the client would be oblivious to it all? Thanks,Corte Swearingen</blockquote> </body> </html>