Klarinet Archive - Posting 000448.txt from 1998/09

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Pitch standards
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 16:56:57 -0400

On 14 Sep 1998 charette@-----.org wrote:

> PS - I hope I'm not boring too many people. Standards are something I
> did with the American national Standards Institue and the International
> Standards Organization, ........

I have read about the ISO for years, and it is obvious that they have a
very significant effect on our lives as musicians. In your dealings with
this group, did the question of pitch standards ever come up? Is it your
feeling that the A=440 standard is under attack? What is the likelihood
that the ISO will be convinced to change it to 442 or something even
higher? (If we don't have at least the reference to the ISO standard as
justification, we don't have very much at all to counter the arguments of
those who want to continue to raise the pitch.)

> ....... and I truly believe that understanding this difference with
> distiction is important to the real question - why do we keep changing
> the note that we tune to?

A very important question, indeed, but one which apparently no one has an
answer.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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