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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=draine@comcast.net href="mailto:draine@comcast.net">J =
Patrick
Draine</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 16, 2004 =
10:20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Grotrian lost it's =
singing
tone</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>On Apr 16, 2004, at 8:28 AM, Ron Nossaman
wrote:<BR><BR>><BR>>> One of the ideas was to plan a 2 piano =
concert
and bring the Pleyel <BR>>> in from the choir room. That might =
shed some
light on things for him <BR>>> if the Pleyel winds up with the =
same
troubles.<BR>><BR>> An excellent idea. Also possibly swapping =
locations
to see if the <BR>> problem follows the piano, or stays with the
room.<BR><BR>I remember the late Ernie Juhn, during a class, related a =
story
about <BR>neighbors in an apartment building with identical model =
Yamaha
<BR>uprights, one of which had major tuning stability problems, while =
the
<BR>other was stable. Eventually Ernie had them temporarily swap, and =
the
<BR>instability transferred to the "new" piano. Eventually I believe =
he
<BR>discovered that family had a penchant for "warming up" the =
bathroom's
<BR>shower, by turning it on with the door open for a half hour every
<BR>morning. Once the shower routine was adjusted the piano returned =
to
=
<BR>stability.<BR><BR>Patrick<BR><BR>____________________________________=
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