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<div><SPAN contentEditable=false style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></SPAN>I have used <SPAN class=correction id="">RCT</SPAN> to average the two tunings, then used that as the basis for tuning both pianos, making modest compromises within each instrument to <SPAN class=correction id="">make it</SPAN> sound a little better unto itself. It also depends on the music to a certain extent. If one piano is <SPAN class=correction id="">truly</SPAN> the dominant one compositionally, then I favor that one sounding better with itself and fudge the instrument with the lesser role as needed.</div>
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From: pianotuna@accesscomm.ca<br>
To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Sat, 5 May 2007 11:43 AM<br>
Subject: Re: tuning two pianos together<br>
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<div class=AOLPlainTextBody id=AOLMsgPart_0_9d9d928c-81ee-4753-8a10-f85c97507b9a><PRE><TT>Hi John,
I feel your pain trying to tune two such <SPAN class=correction id="">dissimlar</SPAN> pianos together. Some
<SPAN class=correction id="">ETD's</SPAN> have an "averaging" feature that will "blend" to tuning charts
together. I find that approach doesn't work too well in the "real world".
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