<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV>  <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Terry asks: Do you find pianos that have not been tuned for 10 years to be 50 cents flat? I find that it takes more like 25 or 30 years (or more) to go 50 cents flat.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Well, like the unsuccessful owner of an orchard and feed lot, I see so much crap and so few cherries it's really hard for me to speak about even "average" pianos. Certainly, I run into a lot of first-time customers who haven't tuned in about five years and are 20 to 50 cents down.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I'm going to put some hammers to pins and measure the angular movement vs. the cents change. I've only been going on memory, today.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Night all ... </FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>P.S. I just thought ... you said that there is only a slight movement for a big change. Wouldn't that bolster the notion that a "slight" pin turn, a VERY slight pin turn would change a piano's pitch? </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>