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At 11:31 AM 1/16/2006, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">In a message dated 1/4/2006
1:16:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, adarpub@midrivers.com writes:<br>
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<dd>A friend in Brazil has been talking to me about the possibility
of <br>
<dd>beginning tuning, and I'd be glad to help out. But she says
that <br>
<dd>there pianos are generally tuned 1/2 step flat. I'm curious
about <br>
<dd>that. Does anyone know why that might be? Because of
that, she says <br>
<dd>they have mostly limited themselves to keyboards to avoid the
obvious <br>
<dd>pitch/transposing challenges.<br><br>
<dd>Arlie Rauch<br>
<dd>Glendive, MT<br><br>
</dl>Greetings,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Julie <br>
Reading, PA</blockquote><br>
Or because they don't want to go to the trouble/risk of raising it to
standard pitch. <br>
Which is probably the reason! <br><br>
Avery </body>
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