I recently posted my approach to tuning a piano to a harmonium, whereby I copied the temperament from the harmonium via RCT and tuned the piano with that temperament. I dont' know if this is a standard way to approach the problem, but it worked for me: the client is happy with the results. I personally find the piano sounding less than sweet on many of the "white note" chords, and I think I'm going to round up or down some of these values on the next tuning. Here are the offsets from that harmonium temperament: A : 0 G# : -3.7 G : 0 F# : -1.7 F : -2.2 E : -1.1 D# : -3 D : -3 C# : 0.5 C : -5 B : -3.2 A# : -4.1 Alot of negative values; I offset RCT to measure A as 0. It was actually 17cents sharp, meaning that many of the negative values are closer to 440. It occurs to me that it is possible that the harmonium is simply out of tune. (After all, A4 is way sharp.) Can anybody look at that chart and determine whether this is an intentional temperament or whether it's just out of whack? Tom S
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