Klarinet Archive - Posting 000572.txt from 1998/11

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: @-----._:_Re:_=5Bkl=5D_Concert_A_pitch=2C_again?=
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:47:10 -0500

I'll try to find it but it was some time back that I read this. If and when
I do, I'll be sure to post it.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU>
Date: Monday, November 16, 1998 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Réf. : Re: [kl] Concert A pitch, again

>Dee D. Hays wrote:
>
>> This is nothing new. When the international standard was established at
>> A=440, there was another standard of A=456! Clarinets in the
overlapping
>> time period were often labeled LP (low pitch around the 440 or so) or HP
>> (high pitch around 456 or so). I do not know what countries did this
though
>> as there was also a standard of A@-----.
>
>Dee,
>
>I have been looking for an authoritative reference that discusses these
>differences. (I always had the impression that H.P. clarinets made at A =
>around 446 but I don't remember where I got that idea. Now it appears that
I
>may have been off by quite a bit.) If you would post your source, I would
be
>most grateful. I would love to read up on some of this history.
>
>Many thanks,
>Jack Kissinger
>St. Louis
>
>
>
>
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