Well, aren't European pianos scaled at 440 as well? Jeff On Thursday, April 21, 2005, at 03:21 PM, J Kemple wrote: > I tuned & lived in Norway for 2 years. After about a month of tuning > for a music store, I started getting questioned about why my tunings > sounded wierd. Further discussion turned up that my forks were at > 440. They couldn't believe it. The store included employees from > France, Scotland, Norway & Poland. None of them had ever heard of > "International Standard Pitch" (they were used to 442 or 444) and > jested that, as usual, "International" meant "American". I replaced > my fork with a 442, and all was well after that. > Jeff Tanner, RPT School Of Music University of South Carolina
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