Klarinet Archive - Posting 000247.txt from 2010/09

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] tuning
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:15:49 -0400


"Keith Bowen" <keith.bowen@-----.com> wrote:

> But tuning to any pitch other than a common open string, e.g. Bb, would be
> absurd for strings. For the wind band, this is good for the trombone as it
> is the pedal fundamental (harmonics would also work), and many other
> instruments are naturally in Bb or Eb. Tuning a trombone to A is silly.

The french horns in our community band request that I give them a
concert A after the rest of the band gets a Bb. Since science has not
yet definitively established in what key french horns actually play, I
don't know the justification, but it doesn't cost me anything, so I give
it to them. ;)

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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