<HTML>Dear List, I am a list lurker and enjoy reading posts in the attempts of bettering = my ever growing knowledge of pianos, but I am not a piano technician, rather= I work with 3 technicians.  I thought that this post might add a littl= e levity :-) A call came in today from a customer who had something "very wrong" with= one of the notes on her piano.  She had it tuned 2 weeks ago and today= one of the notes started "acting funny".  She was quite displeased tha= t her tuning wouldn't hold for "at least a month"  and wasn't there som= e "warranty" that we apply to tunings.  Now for one out of whack note o= ur technician would go out and take care of it but I also tried to take a mo= ment to explain how weather and other factors can play a part in tuning stab= ility.  My thought was that maybe recent weather changes could have bee= n the problem.  After a brief "education" on how certain things can aff= ect the tuning, I told her that our technician would call her back when he c= ame in.   Upon the return call she received from our technician sh= e was asked to play, over the phone, the piano so our technician could under= stand what her problem was.  She explained that she was a beginner play= er and was trying to practice the exercises her teacher had given her. &nbsp= ;So over the phone she played her first exercise (the first four notes of th= e C chord) C, D, E,  & F.  This sounded good, then she played = her second exercise - F, G, A, B.  It was that "darn B that had been gi= ving her problem all day long!"  So at our technician's request he had = her play the B flat instead of B (F, G, A, B flat).  She exclaimed, "Th= at's how its supposed to sound!"  She had been bugged all day that "her= piano wasn't holding its tune" and all it was was an inexperienced player p= laying the wrong notes of an F chord. But of course, if something isn't right, its the work of the technician = :-) ~Lanie _________________________________________________ Moody Piano & Organ Metro West Plaza (rear) 796 Boston Post Road East Marlborough, MA 01752 Phone 508-877-2222 or 508-229-3601 • Fax 508-303-8996 <A HREF="mailto:MoodyPiano@aol.com">MoodyPiano@aol.com</A> • <= A HREF="http://www.bushellcompanies.com">www.bushellcompanies.com</A> </FO= NT></HTML>