<html> At 09:56 PM 08/29/2001 -0400, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite cite>I do all my pitch raises using RCT, so I end up very close to pitch after the first pass.  If the piano is 50 cents flat or more, I have always warned the client that a pitch-raised tuning is a less stable tuning, and that their piano may need another tuning in 3 or 4 months.   Rarely do they actually call me in 3 months.  Most often I come back in a year...OR TWO, and I am usually surprised at how well the piano has stayed in tune.  Not that the piano doesn't need a tuning, but it's tolerable enough that I can understand why I haven't been called back sooner.  I suppose it's possible that the piano did all its drifting in the first 3 months, and just stayed there, but I'm starting to wonder about the conventional wisdom that a pitch-raised tuning is less stable.  Could it be that the use of the RCT negates the instability issue by virtue of getting the piano so close to pitch after the first pass? Any thoughts? Tom Sivak </blockquote> If the piano is more than 8 cents off pitch it should be tuned a second time that day to even off the tension. Just think how well the piano will sound a few years later... Regards, Jon Page,   piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. <a href="mailto:jon.page@verizon.net" eudora="autourl">mailto:jon.page@</a>verizon<a href="mailto:jon.page@verizon.net" eudora="autourl">.net</a> <a href="http://www.stanwoodpiano.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.stanwoodpiano.com</a> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</html>