<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I remember how = excited/nervous/shaky I was when I went to tune my first grand after = quite a few cheap uprights. What a joy to tune a nice grand after trying = hard to get an upright to sound good and doing the best you can and not = being able to make it agree with itself, but making it sound so much = better than it did!<DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Nice grands just tune up so = much easier, in my humble, newbie opinion.</DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Steve</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV= >On Jul 20, 2005, at 1:50 PM, William Morton wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE = type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">When someone = feels he/she may be ready to begin trying their hand</DIV><DIV = style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">at tuning Grand pianos, (when all they have had = experience tuning is</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Uprights), what should they = do first?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE = type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On 20, Jul 2005, , at 9:21, <A = href="mailto:mps@usol.com">mps@usol.com</A> wrote:</DIV><DIV = style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Well, the principle is the same; think of the grand = as just a tipped-over upright and you'll be = fine.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" = color="#0000DD"></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>=