---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 11:31 AM 1/16/2006, you wrote: >In a message dated 1/4/2006 1:16:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, >adarpub@midrivers.com writes: >A friend in Brazil has been talking to me about the possibility of >beginning tuning, and I'd be glad to help out. But she says that >there pianos are generally tuned 1/2 step flat. I'm curious about >that. Does anyone know why that might be? Because of that, she says >they have mostly limited themselves to keyboards to avoid the obvious >pitch/transposing challenges. > >Arlie Rauch >Glendive, MT > >Greetings, > > The only reason I can think of why they would tune a > piano 1/2 step flat is because of playing with B flat transposing instruments. > >Julie >Reading, PA Or because they don't want to go to the trouble/risk of raising it to standard pitch. Which is probably the reason! Avery ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/18/0c/61/e5/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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