<HTML>List, I got a call from a gentleman the other day who lives in the hills high = above the Bay Area.  In Los Gatos to be exact.  He said he has a 1= 5 year old Kawai GS60 (a 6'10" or so grand that has since been replaced by t= he RX 6).  The kicker was that it hadn't been tuned in 10 years, or so = he says. I was ready for a major pitch raise, some regulation, a good interior cl= eaning, and a fine tuning.  He was expecting a professional pianist to = come to his house to play it in a couple of nights(that would be tonight), s= o he wanted to dial it in really nicely.  I was certainly not expecting= what I found. After a long drive up Highway 9, and a continuation up a twisty little p= rivate road, I arrived at the residence.  I walked in expecting a piano= completely out of whack.  What I got was a piano that was between 0 an= d 5 cents flat(upper treble only).  The bass was barely off at all. &nb= sp;There were quite a few whiny unisons, just what you'd expect after 6 mont= hs or a year!  And the regulation was far better than what one sees in = most showrooms! I asked him if he was certain that it hadn't been tuned in 10 years. &n= bsp;He swore up and down that it had it's free tuning, then five years later= it was tuned again.  That was it.  Hadn't been touched in ten yea= rs.  In a state of disbelief, I asked him about the climatic conditions= in the room:  were they stable?  He said that it gets really hot = in the summer, and cool in the winter, and he hasn't had AC since the '99 st= ock slide.   I asked him who the previous tuner had been.  He said somebody name= d Anderson.  I only know one tuner named Anderson around here, and I'm = not altogether convinced that he would go so far out of his way to tune a pi= ano.  It got me to thinking...Dave Anderson, are you out there?  H= ave you ever tuned in the Bay Area??? I spent an hour and a half getting the piano sounding as good as possibl= e.  The only downside to the instrument was that there were quite a few= false strings in the high treble.  And the room was incredibly live(ti= le floors), which accentuated the beats. Any notions on how a then-new piano could be so stable with so little ma= intenance??  No dampp-chaser.  I know where he bought it, and it i= s unlikely that the dealer spent any money prepping the piano extensively. &= nbsp;  Quizzically, Dave Stahl </HTML>