<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2604" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Depends where you are. Here the humidity can be from the low 20's in the Winter, to 90's in the Summer.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>At the university, they insist on tuning September and January.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>In September, I lower them about 1/3 ST above the break. In January, I raise them the amount I lowered them in September.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>No they won't put in DC systems, and no they don't want them floated.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>The ones for concerts and recitals are done 1-4 times a month, and sometimes an extra tuning will be done on one of the Profs. I am contracted, and not full time.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>So it may have been tuned properly, and you just hit a different season, from when it had been tuned previously.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Alpha88x@aol.com href="mailto:Alpha88x@aol.com">Alpha88x@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 27, 2005 1:46 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: One more tuning question...</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">In a message dated 2/20/05 3:32:50 AM Pacific Standard Time, <A href="mailto:terry@farrellpiano.com">terry@farrellpiano.com</A> writes:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" TYPE="CITE">>     Floating pitch is not IMHO dishonest but again, IMHO short<BR>>sighted. I'm now dealing with a University about an hour from me which<BR>>could really benefit from floating the pitch as the humidity fluctuation.........<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I am not talking 2 to 7 cents here, I know what floating pitch is ...I float the pitch in the summer and winter. No.......I am talking a REGULAR tuner, who, at churches and schools, has a card IN these pianos with all their tuning dates on it and the piano is 20 to 50 cents FLAT!!!!!!    I am livid over it.<BR><BR>Julia</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>