<HTML>In a message dated 11/28/00 4:24:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, bases-loaded@juno.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> List - Another first... Went to tune a piano to a pipe organ at a church, and found the pipe organ 28 cents SHARP!  Yep, sharp....And it was JUST tuned....I am more accustomed to 15-20 cents flat.  Anyway.... I convinced the music director that tuning the piano that high was not advisable, and he agreed to A-440. Which brings up the following query... How high are you willing to tune a piano, when circumstances require it? A-442 would be about 8 cents high, right?  I assume you would go there? Would you go 10 cents?  15? Conversely, when tuning to a pipe organ, as mentioned, I find that typically they are 15-20 cents low, although I have one within 4 cents (sometimes).  My question here is more oriented to the use of 'other' instruments when tuned this low....i.e., how low can OTHER instruments be expected to 'play along' with tunings that are below A-440?  5 cents? 10 cents?  15 cents?  Just how long ARE the mouth pieces of most wind instruments?  Can they be expected to elongate themselves as much as 18 cents to match a pipe organ and still be playable?   Any wind players out there? Looking for parameters... Mark Potter bases-loaded@juno.com     </XMP> </BLOCKQUOTE> I tune the piano to A-440 and tell them to have to organ tuned the same. Dave Peake, RPT Portland Chapter Oregon City, OR www.davespianoworks.locality.com</HTML>