Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2020-08-07 07:38
ruben,
Just for the record, many of the top U.S. professional orchestras play at 442 -- and have for some time. A number of years ago (at least 7 or 8), a first violinist with the St. Louis Symphony played the Barber concerto with a community orchestra I was in at the time. I remember as we were tuning for the first rehearsal, he asked our principal oboist if we could possibly tune to 442 because going back and forth between 440 and 442 was not good for his strings (our orchestra did normally play at 440). The oboist, who was a bit of a curmudgeon (and who undoubtedly had made his reeds to play at 440) just looked at the violinist and said, "No."
Best regards,
jnk
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