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Re: first concert back

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2008-07-29 21:02

Oddly, the tuner I used (Chromatia) indicates that my warmed up Bb instrument is around 5 to 7 cents sharp against the A440 baseline virtually throughout the range. Yet the problem at the concert, where they used my pitch to tune, was that I was surprisingly flatter than a number of the other musicians. It's like they were used to A445 or something.

The young lady sitting next to me had just purchased a used wooden Yamaha for $75, and she was using it for the first time. She said it played much better than her former instrument. When I expressed admiration for the bargain, she mentioned that the top and bottom joints were from two different models of Yamaha. Could that odd match create an instrument out of tune with itself?

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