A 440 Standard (PS)

[James Ellis]

Yes, Wim, "Been there, done that".  I think it was also about 20 years ago,
and at one of the North Carolina Conferences.  Ruth Ann was running the
show, and she asked me to come in and help with a master tuning on an
SD-10.  It was cold outside, and the piano had apparently sat on the truck
for a while.  It was delievered late in the afternoon - several hours
behind schedule.  It was really cold when it came in, but Ruth Ann wanted
us to get right to work.  She was running the show, so that's what we did.
She came in a few minutes later, checked it, and yelled, "THE CS ARE FLAT".
 Sure they were.  I knew why, and I told her.  We chased that thing for
several hours as it slowly warmed up, but it sounded worse than it did when
it first come in.  About 10 PM I excused myself, and let the others have
it.  Ruth Ann finished it about 4:30 AM the next day.  All that fretting
and thrashing around for the first few hours as it warmed up was just
wasted effort.

Sincerely, Jim Ellis