<!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 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>List,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just got back from tuning a friends = piano which is an old Lowrey Console (Charles Fredrick Stein).  This was my = third time tuning it in the past 12 months.  It holds the tuning quite well, = but the tone is a very ugly, schreeking, bright nasty sound that I can hardly = stand while I tune it.  She gives piano lessons every week on it and I = can't understand how it doesn't drive her nuts.  I have tried before to = shape, needle, and soften the hammers to even out the tone a bit, but nothing I = do seems to bring down the schreekiness.  And to add on top of this, = it sits on a hardwood floor which makes it echo throughout the = house.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there an easy/short fix to this = problem shy of replacing the hammers that anyone here has found?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dave Foster</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>