Klarinet Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 2002/05

From: "Dr. Laroy Borchert" <lborcher@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] A=440?
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 23:29:08 -0400

In the El Paso Symphony, we play at A=442, El Paso Opera and Las Cruces
Symphony at A@-----. Our
conductor with EPSO, Gurer Aykal, can certainly hear the difference between
the two.
When we toured Germany with the EPSO a few years ago, the piano tuners all
wanted to tune the piano to A=444 or 445 and had to be talked into tuning
down to 440.
Laroy
Dr. Laroy Borchert
Professor of Clarinet
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
(505) 646-3735
lborcher@-----.edu

"My clarinet was tuned at the factory, so I don't need to use a tuner."
Attributed to anonymous student no longer in my studio.
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