Klarinet Archive - Posting 000229.txt from 2004/11

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] What's Recent? (was Stuffy Bb (now: Requited Love))
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:37:25 -0500

Some people's "history" was "current events" for some of us. I'm not old
enough to have been alive 70 years ago, but 1935 doesn't somehow sound as
extremely long ago to me as it seems to you. :-)

I do have to stifle a snicker, though, when I hear people refer to Sacre du
printemps or Wozzeck (both slightly less recent even than the change to
A=440, apparently) as "modern music." I guess "old," "recent," "new" and
"modern" are almost as tricky as "bright" and "dark."

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 5:12 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Stuffy Bb (now: Requited Love)
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:10:44 +0100, ferengiz=E2de_dani=EAl_shawqy?=
> <rab@-----.de> wrote:
>
> >You are wellcome to join our standard. Shouldn't be a problem,
> as New York
> >and London used to have an even higher standard (about 455 Hz!)
> until quite
> >recently.
> >
> >
>
> Well, "quite recently" is a rather extreme exaggeration, since the
> official shift from 455 Hz to 440 Hz happened about 70 years ago.
>
> >If any standard for Classical music would qualify as internationally apt
> >then it's certainly the Viennese one, especially as you can hardly get a
> >decent clarinet at low pitch unless very old or made on request.
> >
> >
>
> Nobody mentioned "low pitch", which refers to A in the 415 range.
> We're all talking about variations on high pitch. The international
> standard is A=440. Vienna's use of 444 is the result of arrogance on
> the part of the violins.
>
> --
> - Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
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