I've got a good instructor/client with a 1917 Sohmer 5ft 7in grand and
a '70s Baldwin SD-10 in her studio. She always wants the two tuned to
each other for obvious reasons, but I keep telling her that the best I
can do is have them both at the same pitch, and beyond that, the
pianos are just too different to tune exactly to each other. Then I
started thinking, maybe there is a compromise, in between, that would
allow me to do this. Is this possible? How would I determine the
compromise? She's rather picky - would she be happy with the result?
Where does the line get drawn as to which pianos (style, make, model,
size, etc.) can be exactly tuned to each other? I use an SAT, and
maybe I could play around with the FAC numbers to reach the
compromise.
Thanks in advance,
John Piesik, RPT
Oceanside, CA
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