<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">Tom, I've tuned one, and only one, and my experience was similar to yours. &n= bsp;It had a really sweet sound, especially when tuned to 438(prescribed on = the plate in factory letters) to a Broadwood's best temperament.  My ba= ck didn't hurt either.  While the action wasn't up to modern standards(= no abs-graphite in there...:-), it worked okay for simple stuff.  All i= n all, a rewarding experience. Glad to hear you enoyed it, Dave Stahl In a message dated 12/21/04 8:50:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, Tvak@aol.c= om writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-= LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">List Everything I know about tuning square grands I learned from what I've re= ad here on the list.  Never having done it, and having a fondness for t= hings ancient, I read most of the posts about square grands.  And from = what I've read, it's something you would do only when faced with a firing sq= uad.  Why?  Because your back will be sore for days afterwards fro= m bending over the thing trying to reach the tuning pins and hit the key at = the same time.   Still...I was willing to have a sore back just to have the experience of= working on one.   Well, for those of you who haven't had the joy yet, let me say that it a= in't necessarily so.  I tuned my first square grand this week and it wa= s fun.  Yeah, I had to stretch a bit to reach the tuning pins but I use= d my Schaff extension hammer and I really had to stand (or stoop over) the p= iano only to reach the top octave.  The other pins I could reach while = sitting at the bench.  (Stool, actually...) Maybe this was a small square, and thus was easier to reach the tuning p= ins.  Then again, maybe some people are just whiners.   Maybe both! This square, a Hallet and Davis, was a charming piano with a quaint soun= d.  There were no trichords, even the steel treble strings were all bic= hords, so the tuning went fast.  There were a few bass wound bichords t= hat were difficult (impossible) to tune a true unison on, but hey, I had the= exact same experience with a Steinway 45" vertical today. Just thought I'd present a different viewpoint on the experience. Tom Sivak Chicago PTG Associate P.S. For the record, I'm 5'11", and am not built like an orangutan: my arm le= ngth is proportional to my height!  (Just thought I'd cut a couple of j= okes in the bud.)</BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>