Press releases:

http://www.qrsmusic.com/Press/pr02022401.htm  February 25, 2002
  QRS acquires exclusive worldwide rights to manufacture, sublicense
and sell a self-tuning piano system invented by Don A. Gilmore...

http://www.qrsmusic.com/Press/pr02081201.htm  August 12, 2002
  Piano Technicians Guild, Kansas City, MO, published Don Gilmore's
article "In Pursuit of the Self-Tuning Piano" in the July issue of the
Piano Technicians Journal. ...

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993143  04 December 02
  New Scientist magazine article: "Hot-wired Piano Tunes Itself"

This recent article reviews previously published information and adds
a couple of new items explained by inventor Gilmore.

Before it leaves the factory the piano will be initially tuned about
30 cents sharp.  Then the computer magnetically excites the fundamental
frequency of the string and applies a current to the string to heat it
(and thus reduce the tension) in order to lower the vibration to the
proper frequency.

The article says that the normal operating temperature is then about
35 degrees Celsius, or 95 degrees Fahrenheit.  Power consumption of the
piano is about 500 to 600 watts, said Gilmore.

QRS Story & Clark Pianos plans to have the new piano on sale at the
end of 2003.

Robbie Rhodes