<HTML><HTML>Greetings,                I h= ave a new customer who is head of a music department. Claims she gets all th= e pianos tuned 3 times a year: All newer (1980+ -) Yamahas. One is a grand C= 7.  I found them all around 8 cycles flat!  I find this difficult = to fathom. Yet the tuner's card is inside the piano with all the dates writt= en on it.             &nbs= p; I am really having a hard time believing that these pianos were actually = brought up to pitch at each tuning. I own a Yamaha. They hold a tuning (In m= y home anyway). The pianos are only used about 10 hours a week more than a r= esidence. What could be causing such a drop? rookie Julia Gottchall' Reading, PA  </HTML>