[Rufuss Sewell]

Hi, I just scored an amazing 100 year old Albrecht upright piano for FREE on craig's list. It looked really nice in the picture. Very gothic. It's made of dark wood with lots of ornate woodwork. But I expected it to be all messed up. When I went to the house to pick it up I couldn't believe it. This thing is in amazing shape. It was pretty much in tune and all of the keys played perfectly. On top of that it has such an amazingly beautiful tone. It's deep, warm and feels haunted. I really can't believe this thing lasted the two hours it was on craig's list before my friend found it and showed me the listing.

So anywayz... in the move the tuning got a little whacked. I'm wondering if there are acceptable variances in tunings I should be looking into. I don't really know much about pianos so I'd like to tell the tuner... yeah I want the "Eastern Transylvanian Pythagorean" tuning. Basically I want it to sound on the evil/sad/dark side of the spectrum. I kind of like the sound of it being slightly out of tune. Is there a tuning method that adds little chorus by detuning the strings a bit? I don't want to get too crazy, because this is a recording studio and I need to be able to get normal piano music to come out of it. But a nudge in the evil direction would be best for most of the music I make here. Or is this just stupid and I should just get it tuned to the normal equal temperament.

Thanks!