Suggestions for a Victorian Temperment

[Jon Page]

At 02:49 AM 4/30/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I am soliciting suggestions for an appropriate temperment to use on a 1896
>Victorian Upright, 47" G. Challenger & Co. piano. I am restringing the bass
>strings at the customer's request, and will be repairing a few broken
>trebles, and the hammers are being reconditioned, but I'm really interested
>in giving this customer a tuning that will work on this old piano. I'm going
>to be tuning it at A=435 if that has any influence on your advice. This is a
>beautiful little piano, with a genuine "honky-tonk" sound and I'd like to
>make this customer very happy. He's a very casual player and not an artist
>by any means, so maybe a WT or something similar will sound a bit sweeter to
>him.
>
>Thanks in advance for the suggestions.
>
>Greg Casper
>San Jose, CA

Jason Kanter has done us all a great service by listing temperaments, 
Thanks Jason.
http://www.rollingball.com/images/HT.pdf

Here you will find the offsets from ET and presentation material for your 
customers.

Regards,

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@attbi.com
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