<html> <body> Just wondering why this is here for the second time! :-) Avery At 08:20 AM 10/6/04, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Why would someone change tuners?  Do you recognize yourself in the following story?  If so, it is time for a drastic change.   The tuner arrived in a very loud, very beat up truck that leaked oil all over the driveway.  He came in wearing shabby work clothes that judging from the smell had not been washed for a week and were probably slept in the night before.  His personal hygiene was such that the lady of the house had to use her dish towel to breathe and left the room quickly after showing him to the piano.  For three hours after he left, the room smelled of him even with all the windows and doors open. Of course the open windows changed the temperature in the piano drastically.    His tool box was huge and metal.  It was so big and heavy that he seemed to have trouble carrying it and left several dents in furniture in the path from front door to piano.  His box was placed on the ivory carpet and when he left it left several spots.  When he picked it up to go it pulled a long piece of yarn out of the carpet.  When he put his tools on the piano he left several scratches on the piano case.  While tuning, he knocked several spots into the gold plate that are now black.    When he replaced that string that has been gone for several years, there is something different about it.  It does not look like the ones around it.  It wraps around the tuning peg real funny.  There is a little sharp piece of piano string that sticks out of two of those tuning pegs now.  The wire on all the others is all going around the pin and bunched together, but his new one has the wire crossing itself and all spread out.   The hammer he replaced sticks way up above all the other hammers.  It rubs the one next to it.   When he tuned the piano the lady noticed that he did not tune the top five or six notes.  They were fine, he said.  The lowest bass notes he did not bother with either,  You can't hear those anyway, he said.   When the lady got the windows all closed having aired out the room, she sat down to the piano to play her nicely tuned piano.  She played a while and decided that tuning it really did not make that much difference.  She wondered why people always say you should tune your piano regularly.  It did not sound all that different and that one that had the missing string was all wonky sounding.  She decided that it would be a really long time before she ever had another tuner out to work on her piano.     D.L. Bullock    St. Louis <a href="http://www.thepianoworld.com/">www.thepianoworld.com</a> Put the worlds greatest healer to work for WHATEVER health problem you may have----YOUR OWN IMMUNE SYSTEM.  Your body is capable of healing EVERY disease if you give it the right fuel.  Visit <a href="http://www.mannapages.com/dlbullock">http://www.mannapages.com/dlbullock</a> to learn how to get the right fuel.  Also <a href="http://www.glycoscience.org/">www.glycoscience.org</a></blockquote></body> </html>