Roger, At 02:04 PM 9/21/1998 -0600, you wrote: > But I have heard that Previn likes his piano at A441, have also >picked it up on some of his early recordings. the piano is a little sharp >of the Orchesra???? Go figure. The LA Phil pianos have been at (at least) 442 for at least 20 years. Ditto, most of the other major halls in LA. In re: the piano being sharp to the orchestra. Which recordings? The London ones are all at a minimum (average) pitch of 442, but the oboes are consistently flat, the flutes mostly so, the clarinets flat in the low registers while sharp in the higher ones, the bassoons - well, they're bassoons, they're sharp, etc for the other instruments. The ones from LA during his tenure were recorded at Royce Hall at UCLA, and, in that venue, the air conditioning has to be shut off during actual recording (it was not designed as a recording studio). In this latter case, anything remotely resembling "in tune" playing on those recordings has more to do with the quality of the LA band than anything else
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