Klarinet Archive - Posting 000427.txt from 1998/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] pitch standard
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:24:02 -0400

At 02:16 PM 9/13/98 -0400, Keith Koons wrote:
>"European orchestras often tune sharper than their American counterparts
>and therefore the A@-----. Americans are
>tuning a little sharper than previously and some orchestras do tune at
>A@-----. As a result, we
>feature flutes built at A442. We occasionally have new A=440 instruments
>and of course many used instruments we have will have been built when
>A@-----."
>
And what have we gained, other than two cycles per second? Just a lot of
perfectly good, sometimes excellent older instruments that now will play
somewhat flat!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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