It snowed Thursday morning. Friday morning it was 26 degrees. Friday afternoon it was 76 degrees. Today it will be in the mid-80s. Monday it will be near 90 degrees.

Come on piano owners...open up those windows and let the heat and humidity inside! Knock those pianos out of tune!

But I just got it tuned on Tuesday.....

You drumming up business, Eric?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I won't do that to my beloved piano!!

No, Mother Nature is doing that for me. She's really good in that way.

When I was tuning independently I used to get calls during the "Santa Ana" conditions in So. CA. Humidity would suddenly drop below 20%, temperature up in the 90s, and the pianos would sound horrible.

I used to tell people, "Live with it for a week, until the weather changes back to normal, then call me if it still sounds bad." If I made the appointment, it would be 2 or 3 weeks later anyway, and the owners would cancel.

I felt sort of like a doctor telling a caller "take 2 aspirin and call me in the morning."

The humidity level in my area has been unseasonably low (slight drought). I had scheduled an appointment with my local technician to tune a few weeks ago. He called to reschedule at least a week later so I would get more "mileage" from the tuning as rainy weather was forecast.

I must say I appreciated the gesture!