All Tuned Up? Tuning Tips

As I mentioned in a previous article, "All Tuned Up?  Tuning Frequency" there are three ways that I know to tune an instrument.

1. Tuned to itself.  Set one string as the pitch foundation, and tune the rest against it. 
2. Tuned to another instrument.  All instruments are tuned according to one that is selected as the tune foundation.  This instrument is the one most trusted, or the one most difficult to tune. 
3. Tuned to a tuner.  All instruments tune to a calibrated instrument. 

These are simple enough, but how does a multi-instument music group, tune when the piano is off-pitch?



Over time my poor piano drifts in pitch.  This is natural and is periodically resolved by a professional piano tuner.  However, it is in the few weeks before the piano tuner arrives (per the tuning schedule) to perform his trade where matters get sticky.

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