OK, so I've seen discussions about how heat from stage lights affect a tuning; humidity, temperature, you name it, we've discussed it. What about altitude? Would hoisting the piano that high in the air affect the tuning? Certainly it would be colder up there, I would think, but aside from the effects of temperature, would simply less air pressure change anything, tuning-wise? If it were tuned on the ground and then raised in the air, does the pitch go up along with the piano? Vice versa? Would it take less time to play FLY ME TO THE MOON? (After all, you'd be a bit closer...) Yes, this may be tongue-in-cheek, but what if a piano were raised from sea level to a climate-controlled room at the top of Mount Everest? (A difference of some 29,000 feet.) What would the effect of less air pressure be on the piano and the tuning? I'll bet Paul Revenko-Jones will have an answer for this one! How about it, PRJ? Tom Sivak Chicago --- Marcel Carey <mcpianos at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Have a look at this. I wouldn't like to be tuning up > there. Wonder how it must sound. > > Marcel > _________________________________________________________________ > >
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