Klarinet Archive - Posting 000181.txt from 1998/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Short barrels
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 23:59:34 -0400

At 11:41 PM 9/5/98 -0000, Dale Garrett wrote:
>While I can appreciate Bill's postion regarding his discomfort with the
>European pitch center, his reasoning that it was an arbitrary decision and
>that there is a trend used by manufacturers is unfounded. The orchestras
>I described in my last post have used the same pitch, we believe, for over
>two hundred years. That does not represent a trend, nor does it represent
>an arbitrary decision. In fact, the European musical community could very
>well call the American A440 an "arbitrary decision" and label it an
>American "trend."

http://www.sneezy.org/cgi-bin/SFgate?language=English&verbose=0&listenv=DL&a
pplication=&convert=&converthl=&refinequery=&formintern=&formextern=&multipl
e=0&descriptor=local%2fclarinet1997%7c315%7c1911%7cSubj:%20Re:%20Tuning%2044
0vs442%20From:%20fredj%40peabody.jhu.edu%7cTEXT%7clocalhost:0%7c%2fWais%2fcl
arinet1997%7c0%201911%20%2fWais%2flogs%2f1997%2f01%2f000244

I KNEW the subject had come up before!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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