Klarinet Archive - Posting 000366.txt from 2006/08

From: "John Gibson" <jblinear2@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] higher pitch standard in Europe?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:50:37 -0400

I have posted about my clarinet intonation book recently and the
question has come up about the pitch standard. For the Cd's I used
A440. However, a player in Italy emailed me that if I wanted to sell
in Europe, A442 should be used.

I did an archive search here and there seems to be some confirmation
of this.

Does anyone know just how widespread the higher pitch is? Do
instrument makers have to make instruments pitched differently for
different markets?

John Gibson, JB Linear Music
www.jb-linear-music.com

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