<html> <body> Terry, I don't know why it would stop in the mid treble, but I once had a piano like that and I found out that the previous "tooner" had used WD-40 to remove rust from the tuning pins! After I finally gave up, I told the customer, "Don't call me. I'll call you!" I just didn't want to deal with it again (I spent about 3 hrs. trying to "tune" the thing)! And this was the father of a piano faculty member at the local university! Avery At 07:09 PM 3/27/05, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I tuned a 1920s-type Hardman small grand today. Who knows what has been done to the pinblock on this POS, but every single tuning pin up to the mid-treble are horribly jumpy - I mean the finest increment to change pitch is ten to 20 cents - most moves are more like 30 to 50 cents. It is virtually untunable. I left most unisons beating maybe an average a good 1 bps. I've never encountered a piano like this. Is there any easy thing to do to make it smoother - even moderately tunable? The piano is a bit of a heap and is not worth dumping much money into.....   And yes, we talked about replacement.   ;-)   Terry Farrell</blockquote></body> </html>