<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-asci= i"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=199024500-07112004>Could someone give me a hand on tuning octaves.  I've been study= ing the PACE book on tuning and have gone through the lessons and excercises for = setting pure 2:1, 4:2, and 6:3 octaves.  In each case, the author specifical= ly states that it is "good practice to tune just 2:1, 4:2, and 6:3 octaves, = however this would not be appropriate in an actual tuning. The octave will need t= o be tuned a bit wide or narrow as the piano requires". This last sentence (to= a beginner) is about as ambiguous as it can get. Can someone help me unders= tand how I will know which way (wide or narrow) the piano wants to be tuned? </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=199024500-07112004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=199024500-07112004>Ken Kociolek</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=199024500-07112004>Napervi= lle, IL </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <p> </p> <p style="line-height: 10%"><font color="#800000" size="2">Outgoing= mail is Virus Scanned by Norman Data Defense.        </fon= t></p> <p style="line-height: 10%"><font color="#008000" size="2">Inbound = Spam reduced 98.2% by Vircom Sieve.        </font></p><= /BODY></HTML>