For some time now, I've been thinking of sending this post to the list , to see if there was a definitive answer . I've procrastinated, because I thought it might be a dumb question. What I would like to know, is this. Is the tuning we hear on Rag- Time recordings, a special tuning, or just a piano which happens to be badly out of tune. I know of course that many pianos badly out of tune, sound like this, but on these recordings, they seem to be quite consistent across the keyboard, which leads me to believe that this piano was tuned exactly for this particular recording. What I'm trying to say is that the piano sounds like the out of tuneness seems to be very even thru - out. If in fact my suspicions are correct, I would be interested in knowing what the tuning looked like on paper, ( like E.T. , or some of the other tunings ). For instance, how the beats were arrived at. Carl / Winnipeg.
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