<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Please define "stretching," i.e., from what? How much? 5ths are cleaner, okay, how busy are the 4ths? 4ths still close to identical up and down the scale? 5ths on the wide side in the bass? 3rds and 6ths pretty zippy?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=KeyKat88@aol.com href="mailto:KeyKat88@aol.com"></A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 12/16/2005 3:35:21 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> I will never tune the same way again!</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV>Greettings,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>              At the suggestion of a senior tuner, today I tried stretching all the octaves, in my tuning and WOW what a difference in the power of the tuning!  Anyone have a similar experience? I guess what I did is closer to 'Just' tuning on those octaves, also the 5ths are cleaner. What a difference! </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Julie</DIV> <DIV>Reading, PA</DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>