Klarinet Archive - Posting 000156.txt from 2002/07

From: meistersinger <meistersinger@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 30 Apr 2002 08:15:01 -0000 Issue 3781
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:41:55 -0400

On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 04:15 AM, klarinet-digest-
help@-----.org wrote:

> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 18:17:49 -0500
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> From: "Forest E. Aten Jr." <forestaten@-----.com>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Introduction and a few questions
> Message-ID: <011601c1efd4$14a49480$0301010a=ForestAten>
>
> Dallas Opera tunes at 440.....this is the international standard for
> opera
> orchestras. The international standard is necessary as we have singers
> that
> perform worldwide.
> This is not to say that some European opera orchestras don't tune
> higher...they may.
>
> F. Aten

It was always my understanding that ISO set the standard of A@-----.
From some interviews that I read years ago, conductors like von Karajan
and Haitink used 442 or 445 because it gave the strings a certain
"sheen" they were looking for. Pity the poor woodwind players because
of it