Klarinet Archive - Posting 000227.txt from 1997/08

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Kids Today
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 21:14:22 -0400

On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Bill Hausmann wrote:

> Excellent points made in posting, but one nit to pick: the "LP" mark is a
> good thing. It means that, rather than being tuned to A=452 or so as had
> become common, this horn was made after the adoption of the A@-----.

Not always, I think. We have a Conn bass saxophone, made in the 1920's
which is marked Low Pitch, and which seems to play at about A@-----.

Ed Lacy
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