Tuning vs intonation

[Richard Moody]

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> 
> My question is, how do piano players become tuners since they
have no
> control of the intonation of the notes they play?
> 
> Larry Messerly, RPT
> Prescott/Phoenix


I have always tuned by beats, never heard pitch.  Well, the 
pitch in upper treble and lower bass gets you to the neighborhood,
but it always beats that finally determine tuning.  I never heard 
when I
played on the piano, C4--E4,  that the E was sharper than what I
would sing.  
	When you played violin or trombone, did you ever notice this
intonation difference  on the piano before you were told
about it?  I always wondered after I learned piano tuning why no
one complained or said anything about the sharp thirds.   I haven't
played musical instruments in an organized setting, but did sing in
a HS chorus, and didn't notice the difference there. 
	My home piano was a half a tone flat from my teacher's piano but I
never heard that I was playing a Chopin Prelude in a different key
for the lesson than what I practiced in, and since she lived right
around the corner,  sometimes that was within 15 minutes.    
---ric  Atleasthecanmatchpitch