<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Tom</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No... I haven'y heard that one - but = one like it  "Madam, you mustn't play this piano for 48hours other wise the = tuning will slip!" That signalled his get-away.....!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G (UK)</FONT></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Tvak@aol.com href="mailto:Tvak@aol.com">Tvak@aol.com</A> = </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 05, 2003 12:08 AM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> "training" pianos?</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face=Geneva = color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">List<BR><BR>I recently tuned a 3 year old Baldwin console.  The client told me that thier piano didn't stay in tune = for very long and that the previous tuner had told her that it was probably = because she didn't have it tuned regularly when she first got it.  (This piano = had not been tuned for over a year after they first got it.)   = <BR><BR>Their tuner said that it hadn't been "trained" properly, and it would never = hold a tune very well.<BR><BR>Now I had never heard of this and I told her = so.  The piano was certainly out of tune when I first got there, but it had = been about 9 months since it was last tuned, so there was nothing out of the = ordinary as far as I could see.  The pins were Baldwin-tight.<BR><BR>I did = my best to make my tuning as stable as possible, and I'll have to wait till they = call for another tuning before I'll find out if there is an actual problem or = not.  <BR><BR>But, has anyone ever heard of such a thing?  If = a piano is not tuned regularly in its early life, it will never hold a = tune?  I can't fathom that this could be true...sounds like a line of BS.  <BR><BR>But then, what do I know? (Answer: Less and less as time goes on!)<BR><BR>Tom Sivak</FONT><FONT face=Geneva color=#000000 size=2 = FAMILY="SANSSERIF"></FONT> </FONT></BODY></HTML>