Piano 'detuning'

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Bob writes:
>>This customer deserves for you to recommend a local "tooner" who can give
>her 
>what she deserves to  have...

Greetings, 
     I would do it her way.  Perhaps only tuning the first time, then making 
the action changes after she got over the newness in the sound. 
    There are a lot of instruments that take advantage of the choral effect 
by "detuned" unisons.  I play a hurdy gurdy, and its twin chanterelles sound 
much better if I break the unison by about 8 cents, ( always lowering one 
from its harmony pitch). 
   The out of tune unison has a presence that a Just one doesn't, and it is 
not without its beauty,  so even though I am most often paid for 
purity,(:)}}! that doesn't mean I am going to argue with one of country 
music's biggest names when he asks me to come back to the house and "loosen 
it up a little".   That is the sound he grew up around, and that is the sound 
he wants.  As Paul Simon sang, "Keeping the customer satisfied......"
Regards, 
Ed
(Lawdy, am I out here in public justifying bad unisons?  geez............(:)}}