<html> Hi Kevin,<br>               TThe coils tend to be quite loose, you can speed up stability quite a bit by tighening them. Jim Bryant has a great tool for this.  You can find a drawing in the T & T section of a back issue of the  Journal. Also seat the strings to the bridge and give all bridge pins a light tap.  Expect the piano to drop a good 40 to 50 cents.<br> Roger<br> <br> <br> At 07:10 AM 30/03/00 -0800, you wrote: <br> <font size=2><blockquote type=cite cite>    I plan on visiting a friend in Calif., and while I am there I thought that I'd schedule one or two of my old clients. I just spoke with one of them last night, and he has a Samick grand which I put a Damp-Chaser in when it was new. It's about 1 year old now, and since I've been gone, he says that it won't hold a tune more than 1 1/2 months. Seems like a good piano, the tech he's been using is not a dummy, and I really don't think that the environment is the problem.     <br>     Does anyone have any ideas for unusual things that I should look for? I just figure that it has to be the environment, but it does have a well maintained Damp Chaser. HHHHHHMMMMMMMM.<br> </blockquote><br> </font><br> <div>Roger Jolly</div> <div>Saskatoon, Canada.</div> <div>306-665-0213</div> Fax 652-0505 </html>