<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Here's a general interest question.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>If you use an F-F temperament (probably most of = us) as opposed to, say, the A-A small European, you run into many pianos with = wound strings in your temperament.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I just tune them as if they were not, going for = the same mid-piano 5ths and even-progressing 3rds, etc., as usual.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>But then I tune this Winter & Co. spinet excuse-the-expression piano where five of the temperament notes are = wound bichords and <EM>three</EM> of them are on the <EM>bass bridge.</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I think I make a good temperament on this piano = but just got to wondering how you much-experienced folks, both aural and ETD, = handle this situation.  Comments please.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Alan Barnard</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Salem, MO</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>P.S. Would it make sense to learn and practice = an A-A temperament just for such pianos? (Although in this case even A4 is a = wound string!)</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>