When will it end?

[Avery Todd]

Dave,

    I can maybe understand the violinists but as a former bassoonist, I 
don't understand that!
They're extremely limited re: pitch level, unless it can be done with the 
reeds. Just wondering.

Avery

At 12:21 PM 03/29/00 -0600, you wrote:
>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:
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> >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
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>David M. Porritt
>dporritt@swbell.net
>Meadows School of the Arts
>Southern Methodist University
>Dallas, TX 75275