Tuning Standard

[Joseph Alkana]

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That doesn't make much sense, Julie. A piano that reads music in Bflat, =
but sounds in A  would necessitate a Bflat instrument, reading his music =
in C to have to transpose to the key of B...hardly facile for that =
instrument. Or if the pianist transposes instead, then that player would =
have to play in the key of B. But then I would just as soon grab my A =
clarinet and read the Bflat music as is. But a reason to tune a half =
step flat to accommodate the Bflat instruments? Nope.=20

I hope that came out right <G>
Joseph Alkana RPT
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: KeyKat88@aol.com=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 9:31 AM
  Subject: Re: Tuning Standard


  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 =20
    beginning tuning, and I'd be glad to help out.  But she says that =20
    there pianos are generally tuned 1/2 step flat.  I'm curious about =20
    that.  Does anyone know why that might be?  Because of that, she =
says =20
    they have mostly limited themselves to keyboards to avoid the =
obvious =20
    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=20
  Reading, PA
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