When will it end?

David M. Porritt dporritt@post.cis.smu.edu
Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:21:50 -0600


That's amazing!  Here my violinists and double reed people want their instruments at 442.  And yes, they know if it's not.

dave

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On 3/28/00 at 11:52 PM Mark Graham wrote:

>I can hear it, mostly in the strings. Funny enough, we have Cleveland
>Orchestra players on our faculty, and they THEORETICALLY tune to A440. But
>when there are solo recitals some of them ask for A439 or 438 because
>that's really where they are and what their instruments are set up for.
>The horn players and one oboist are quite adamant about it.
>
>Mark Graham
>Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music
>Berea, Ohio




David M. Porritt
dporritt@swbell.net
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275



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