<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 1/4/2006 1:16:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, adarpub@m= idrivers.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>A friend in Brazil has been talking to me abou= t the possibility of  <BR>beginning tuning, and I'd be glad to help out= .  But she says that  <BR>there pianos are generally tuned 1/2 ste= p flat.  I'm curious about  <BR>that.  Does anyone know why t= hat might be?  Because of that, she says  <BR>they have mostly lim= ited themselves to keyboards to avoid the obvious  <BR>pitch/transposin= g challenges.<BR><BR>Arlie Rauch<BR>Glendive, MT</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV>Greetings,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>           The only r= eason I can think of why they would tune a piano 1/2 step flat is becau= se of playing with B flat transposing instruments.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Julie </DIV> <DIV>Reading, PA</DIV></BODY></HTML>