<HTML>In a message dated 6/5/02 6:30:35 AM Central Daylight Time, cedel@supernet.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">So how can this client, who is far from professional, think the piano "really needs it" when it is quite close? I have several theories.  (1)  It sounded really bad six months ago when the humidity level threw it out of whack, and the client doesn't know that a piano can actually sound better as the humidity level approaches the level at which it was last tuned.  (2)  They are trying to justify in their own minds shelling out those bucks for the annual tuning.  (3)  They want to keep me on my toes. Has anyone else run into this?  Any other theories? Regards, Clyde Hollinger, RPT </BLOCKQUOTE> Clyde I think it is probably a combination of all three. But, unless we sit down and really play the piano for minutes, we won't hear all the unisons, or intervals, that aren't just right. A player doesn't have to be very good to recognize slight imperfections. I have had customers say the same thing, and found the piano to be in the same condition as you say. And when I play just a few chords, I don't hear the piano to be that much out of tune. But in the process of tuning, there are numerous strings I have to adjust. So the customer must know a little more than what we give him/her credit for. Wim </HTML>