Klarinet Archive - Posting 000294.txt from 2004/11

From: "David Renaud" <manonrivet@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] pitch standard
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 13:50:36 -0500

A definition was requested of a cent...........................

There are 100 cents between any two chromatic notes.
It happens that at A440, 1hz is 4 cents.
A439 is 4 cents flat.

A unison with a 4 cent spread is very audibly out of tune, it is allot.
Most of our tuning must be within .5 of one cent to be OK, preferably better
then than.
Concert tuning is measured in deviations of 0.1 cent.

Cheers
Dave Renaud

> 4 cents a big stretch on clarinet??? Perhaps I don't understand your
> definition of a "cent". ;-)

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