Klarinet Archive - Posting 000318.txt from 2004/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] pitch standard
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 08:13:37 -0500

At 03:55 AM 11/8/2004 -0800, Kurt Heisig wrote:
>The point I had started was that ---and I don't know where I filed my
>article---in the 20's??--- at an international conference on pitch,
>everyone went home disagreeing. It was left that in America ORCHESTRA
>would be 440 and band 439. NOW what is impossible is the situation we have
>in this area, that many of the bands are tuning to 442(!!!) with
>instruments made to 440. There are some really mis-guided reasons
>(excuses?) for this. I have played in bands at 439, 440, and 442 and band
>pitch of 439 is VERY satisfactory! I was not talking about one player
>playing out of tune, but rather, a pitch center of 439.

Some companies are advertising that their student clarinets are now pitched
at 442.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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