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Okay, new Vogel delivered in mid January, and just had first post-delivery tunining. (And it's SO pretty now.)
So what next?
We're in the S.F. Bay area, so temperature swings aren't too crazy. Humidity seems to range 50-60%.
(We're thinking maybe dampp-chaser soon.)
But ballpark picture of when arrange for next tuning?
Or do we just wait until even I can hear that we need it?

Ideally 3 or 4 tunings in the first year.

I'd have it done in 1 month. Ask your tuner to measure pitch when he comes back and if it has fallen more than 8 cents have him or her come back in a month until it stops stretching. When the major amount of stretch is gone from the strings, have the tuner straighten the tuning pin coils, pull the piano sharp and settle the strings around the bridge pins, hitch pins and front terminations bringing the piano back down to pitch. This will solve 90% of your stabilty problems that occur in the first year. Just straightening the tuning pin coils can drop the pitch as much as 25 cents. If you let the settling happen slowly, it could take a year or two. I like to check the back scale for equal tension as I settle the strings.

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