Klarinet Archive - Posting 000398.txt from 1998/09

From: "F. Sheim" <fsheim@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Pitch standards
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 00:48:51 -0400

I just listened to two A's on my tuner, one at 440 and one at 442. Not
much difference at all. It was more of somethnig that you can FEEL rather
than hear. Why is such a difference so important?

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

At 03:48 PM 9/13/98 -1300, you wrote:
>In reading many of the interesting remarks about this or that
>orchestra establishing its pitch standard at A=442 or 440 or whatever,
>I am reminded that a pitch standard must contain two elements. One
>is vibrations per second of some standard device, this being the
>one that has been given by everyone so far. But the other is the
>temperature of the room in with that number of vibrations per second
>will occur.
>
>Thus, one uses a pitch standard of A=442 at a temperature of 72 degrees
>farenheit, or A=338 at a temperature of 15 degrees centigrade or
>whatever.
>
>I presume that the St. Louis symphony's pitch standard of A=442
>would be meaningless if the temperature of the room in which they
>were tuning up was 32 degrees farenheit.
>
>
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>Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
>Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
>leeson@-----.edu
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