Potentially silly questions from a novice technician: A: Suppose a piano needs to be tuned to another instrument (let's say a synthesizer or pipe organ). Should I just make sure A4 matches and then tune the piano as normal, or do I need to determine precisely what temperament was used on the other instrument? In the case of a synthesizer, I would think the temperament might vary depending on the setting (for example "concert grand" might use a different temperament than "honky-tonk piano" or "harpsichord"). 2: Suppose I'm going to tune two pianos together, using RCT. It seems to me I could just calculate a tuning for one of the pianos, and then use the same tuning for both instruments (without recording the second piano). Any reason why this wouldn't work? III: Going back to part A, what if I used RCT to record the other instrument (let's say it's a synthesizer), and then used that to tune the piano? What I mean is, suppose I started up the program as I always do, but after clicking "record," suppose I played each of the A's on the synthesizer (instead of the A's on the piano) and then proceeded to tune the piano as usual. Would this work, or is this a crazy idea? Thanks, Paul Mulik
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