A440A@AOL.COM wrote: > >>How high are you willing to tune a piano, when circumstances require it? > A-442 would be about 8 cents high, right? I assume you would go there? > Would you go 10 cents? 15?<< > > Greetings, > I would be willing to go as far as the customer wants to pay for. A-444 > is not unheard of on the international concert stage, but I must ask, Why? I > do think that the bass strings may be damaged by going up 20 cents and then > coming back down, especially if it happened several times. Anybody have > evidence of this? > Regards, > Ed Foote RPT Dont know about damage or such... but I understand the Concert Pitch in Vienna is 444, and you cant tell them anything else. To them 440 is old hat. Otherwise 442 in Europe seems to be the most usual. Only in America do you find so much resistance to fooling around with 440 it appears. Personally... I wish they all could decide and be done with it... pain in the butt really... -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway
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