Hi Jim, Lets take two pianos with wildly different inharmonicity. If you were to compare the "size" of the octave from one to the other the low inharmonicity piano had a *smaller* octave than the high inharmonicity one. As we set our temperaments within an octave therefore all the semitones would also be larger on the high inharmonicity piano. So climb on the boat please *grin* At 12:25 PM 3/6/02 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Folks >Something that has always puzzled me . . >You refer to "question: How would you tune these pianos to each other? " > >Isn't an A440 an A440 no matter what piano it is played on, and isn't the >interval, or distance between any two notes the same on any piano, no matter >what it's manufacture. . . . > >Have I been missing the boat for 20 years . . .?? > > > > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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