I've been somewhat following the discussion on pitch, for example A-440 vs A-457, among other pitches. When I hear a higher pitch than 440, especially 448 and higher or thereabouts, my mind thinks the next key higher. Example: a song written in F tuned to 450 will sound to me like F#. Going to the flat side, however, I can take up to a half step flat or occasionally even more and still fairly easily train myself to think the right key. Example here: song written in D tuned to 425 still can sound like D to me, but a flat version of D at that. If I had the choice of having a piano tuned to, for example, 432 or 444, I'd pick 432. If 440 was an option, I'd pick that. Also, I had been tuning my piano to 440 for the last year or so, but the last couple months I've dropped it to 435, and I'll have to say it sounds better to my ear, and for overall pitch is more stable there. It pretty much stayed at 435 since a week ago when I tuned it, whereas at 440 it would be 10 cents flat. It still was noticeably out of tune with itself, but it wasn't as far off the previously tuned pitch. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/
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