---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 10:07 AM 4/12/2004 -0400, you wrote: Hi Jim, >I'm just wondering: What >orchestras are there out there that play at various different pitches other >than A=440 Hz, and what are those pitches? The Houston Symphony performs at A-442. I tune for them occasionally when some performance is done here at the university. I also charge them a pitch raise & pitch lowering fee because I'm gotten A-440 established as the standard here at the university! The only person I've gotten any "flack" from at all is a violin teacher. Surprise! :-) We ended up compromising by me tuning her studio piano at A-441 but I still tune A-440 for all our concerts and recitals and told her so. A few years back, the symphony did a series of concerts here calling it a Baroque Festival. Of couse, they did all the concerts at 442 and no HT's at all. :-( Harpsichords were the only keyboard(s) used and I wasn't able to do all the tunings, so I asked their regular tuner to do them. Tuning 3 harpsichords at a time for rehearsals and then again for performances would have been good money! :-) > If 442 is better than 440, why >then is 443 not better than 442, or 444, 445, 446, or even 447 not a lot >better than any of the former? I've been told some European orchestras DO go as high as that! The singers HATE it! :-) >Once upon a time, I'm told, a yard was >equal to the distance between the king's nose and the tip of his >outstretched finger. I'm glad we got beyond that. Whatever happened to >the idea of standards, anyway? It seems to me that some people just have >to be different. They seem to think it makes them sound more brilliant, which I guess it does, but there comes a point when some players have to have a special instrument made to be able to reach those higher pitch levels. >Sincerely, Jim Ellis Avery University of Houston ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/e5/08/54/69/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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