Klarinet Archive - Posting 000371.txt from 2006/08

From: Martin van de Ven <mvandeven@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] higher pitch standard in Europe?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:28:28 -0400

Standard in Holland is 442. in Eastern Europe it seems to be 445. (
went to a competion once in Marknuekirchen--former East Gernamy--they
stated in their literature that their pianos would be at 445)

martin van de Ven

At 09:49 AM 8/28/2006, you wrote:
>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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