Klarinet Archive - Posting 000184.txt from 2005/10

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Upward Creeping pitch
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:10:03 -0400

In a message dated 10/20/2005 7:49:14 PM Central Daylight Time,
or3mondtoby@-----.net writes:
If there has been a widely-disseminated international agreement for the
last 60 years to a certain pitch (namely 440), why do many of today's
major orchestras and instrument manufacturers choose a slightly
different standard?>>

Because they want to?

Walter Grabner
www.clarinetXpress.com
World-class clarinet mouthpieces

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