Tuning Standard

[Avery]

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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  
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