<HTML>Terry, After living in a studio apartment where I saw my loaner studio piano go= 10 cents sharp in a couple of days, one of the first questions I ask is abo= ut environmental conditions.   The piano in this case is in a very temperate house(about 68 degrees day= in/day out and year-round).  The tuning in question wasn't uniformly o= ff.  There were some really funny sounding octaves, inconsistent with t= heir neighbors. Thanks for the suggestion. Dave S. In a message dated 4/8/04 2:45:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, mfarrel2@tam= pabay.rr.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-= LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I would suggest a little bi= t of caution when judging someone else's tuning skills. No doubt, you are li= kely right that it was a poor tuning. But you never know, three weeks out. I think I tune reasonable well. I tuned a little console at a church a w= hile back. They called me a week later and said the pianist was complaining = about the tuning. I went to check it out and thought they had switched piano= s - way out of tune and 25 cents flat. After chatting a while longer I learn= ed that the day after I tuned it they finally had their swamp-type air-condi= tioning system replaced with a modern lower-humidity-type air conditioning s= ystem. Aa-haaa! My example above is extreme - no doubt. But my point is who knows what e= nvironmental or other factors affected things over the past three weeks. May= be the piano was 200 cents flat before the tuning three weeks ago. Maybe the= cat has been jumping on the strings. Maybe they store their music books on = the strings. Just my 2 cents worth (or not). Terry Farrell </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>