<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1141" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>As far as I know from musicological studies, you would need to determine<BR>the nationality of the music or if she is accompanying = Romantic era<BR>vocal music i.e. the "Verdi" tuning. The romantic era was all = over the<BR>place as far as tuning was concerned. France at A= 434- A= = 456, and most<BR>of Europe between A= 420- A= 460. Liszt and Wagner = preferring A=440 or<BR>above A= 456, and redesigning instruments to accommodate.<BR>If = you REALLY had to tune to a "romantic tuning" I would settle on<BR>A=435, = actually for vocal reasons.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>    Those are pitch considerations, not temperament considerations.  Tuning an equal temperament at a different pitch = won't change the character of the tuning, just its pitch level, whereas using = a different temperament will alter the "character" of the various = keys.</DIV> <DIV>    --David Nereson, RPT<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>