[CAUT] A440, once again...

[Jim Busby]

Ron,

You always make too much sense. Why should we make sense?? <G> But, that is probably what part of my comment will be; support your decision with reason, address the contrary points. And give me two new Nossaman pianos that I can leave at A440 'cause raising pitch will cause "piano implosion", Oh my!

Best,
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:42 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] A440, once again...

Jim Busby wrote:

> Once again there is a push here at BYU to set A442 as our pitch 
> standard. The Director of the School of Music is behind it, and is also 
> the Philharmonic Orch conductor. The problem I see is that most guest 
> artists specify A440. Sooooo... if someone visits we'll have to drop down, 
> then back up, back down, up, down... I'm getting dizzy just thinking about it.
> 
> Any strong arguments against? Or am I just "bein' contrary" as my 
> kinfolk would say??

People have a positive genius for making things as complicated 
and difficult as possible. Is there an established pitch 
"standard"? Do you support it? If so, is it for sale? If so, 
at what price? You either have a rationally supportable 
standard that you rationally (and rather tenaciously) support, 
or you accommodate every random notion that comes down the 
pike, wherever that leads. Column A - column B. What other 
options are there?

Ron N