This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Think about what you're saying, Wim. The instruments must be designed = to adjust sharp or flat within a reasonable range. Do you think the = musicians tuning to 442 are throwing their horns in the garbage and = buying new ones? Don't be asinine. That's what tuning barrels and = rings are for. My trombone is tuned to 440 and the tuning slide is extended about 3/4", = allowing for sharper or flatter tuning. My point is that instruments are never permanently tuned to anything. = This is common knowledge. Don NO, this is wrong. A wind instrument can be made to go flat, but there = is limited to how sharp it can go. To make a wind instrument sharp, it = must be shortened. Unless you cut off part of the instrument, it cannot = be tuned any sharper than the instrument is long, with everything pushed = in as far as it can go. =20 Wim. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/5e/4b/ac/18/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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