A440 = 0 cents? Re: Hertz and Cents

[Doug Mahard]

So when A4 is tuned to 440 hertz is this zero cents?  And anything measured
below  in the scale  the cents go into the negative cent numbers and
anything above goes into positive cent numbers?
----- Original Message -----
From: Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: Hertz and Cents


> Hm.  100% would be totally out of tune, so then what do you call a piano
that's
> 150 cents flat?
>
> Clyde
>
> > Larry writes:
> > > When I explain to my clients what a cent is I tell them that  it could
be
> > > thought of as a percent (I know it isn't really), and that a piano one
> > > half step flat is 100% out of tune.
>
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