A piano sits in a living room in Denver the owner plays 20 minutes most evenings a few scales, some songs from a beginner book. Their tuner visits twice a year like clockwork meanwhile a nearly identical piano in a climate controlled room two miles away gets tuned once annually, sounds sharper at every session and costs its owner half the service bills the difference has nothing to do with how often either instrument gets played. That gap is why the question of piano tuning f
