<HTML>In a message dated 12/29/02 7:08:19 PM Central Standard Time, joegarrett@earthlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Hmm? Interesting Chart. The only thing I can say, is if I had to listen to a treble stretched that far, for more than a minute, I'd totally lose it!!!!!!! Yikes! Why do some tuners insist on stretching the SH)(^&% out of a piano, to the point of radical dissonance? </BLOCKQUOTE> The point is, Joe that you do not have to do that if you don't want to but I have reasons for doing it.  I don't always stretch that much and sometimes I stretch even more.  As radical as you think it may be, I know of people who will stretch 4 times that much.  Yes, you read it right, FOUR times that much.  I would characterize the amount shown as "moderate".  I have one customer who would not pay me unless I "got it up quite a bit more than that" (no pun intended).  To each his own (also no pun intended). Happy New Year. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-</A></HTML>