Thine Hallow Pitche

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Sorry HEAT



> Hi David,
> Violins or any string instrument will have no problem but that is not the
> case for the woodwinds and brass. I would have to get another tuba to play
> at A444 as the instrument plays at A442when the tuning slide  is all the
way
> in and the horn warmed up.
> Also the orchestra bells are a set tuning and change with the HEAT only a
> little. I always wondered why they sounded out of tune <G> perhaps they
are
> tuned for Europ at A442.
> Joe Goss
> imatunr@primenet.com
> http://www.primenet.com/~imatunr/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@jps.net>
> To: "pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 9:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Thine Hallow Pitche
>
>
> > With my symphony customers who are playing at 442 in the concert hall,
442
> seems very appropriate for their home...;-]
> > If these same customers wanted 440 one time and 442 the next I would
> suspect you would have a problem...
> > Any change of 8 cents is going mean some instability.  That means going
> through the piano twice and more $ from the customer.  If it needs to come
> back down it will need tuning twice and more $ again.  Our symphony here
in
> San Francisco tunes to A442, mainly because of the former concert master's
> insistance...I believe.  Question:  wouldn't it be a pain for other
> instrumentalists to switch between 440 and 442?  Don't violins have to be
> set up for the different pitches?
> >
> > I think most tuners would have no problem with A442 if everyone would
> stick to it.  But then we would have musician "purists" insisting upon the
> old standard of A440 and remarking about how much better it sounds there.
> >
> > David I.
> >
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> >
> > On 3/1/01 at 6:24 PM Kristinn Leifsson wrote:
> >
> > >O.K.  Carol wrote about the pitch thing.
> > >
> > >We normally tune to A440, but the symphony tunes to A442  We don´t take
> > >them as far as A444 (unless perhaps when stock tuning new pianos). I
> heard
> > >A444, is concert standard in Austria and the Czech Rep., but that´s
> > >another
> > >matter.
> > >I have customers that play in the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and I
don´t
> > >hesitate to bring a piano up to 442, as long as the strings etc. are
> > >healthy.  In fact, any time I tune a piano I ask whether there are
other
> > >instruments going to be used with it.
> > >
> > >I have NEVER had a problem resulting from tuning an instrument to A442.
> > >There has never been a broken string at a concert I have tuned for.
> > >
> > >So what´s the deal with the holy pitch?  Are there many tuners out
there
> > >that will absolutely NOT bring a piano above A440,
> > >and will -quote- "sooner quit their jobs than do it" -unquote- (hi
> > >Carol).  I´m not talking about whether to charge more etc.  just the
> > >principle of the thing.  I know this has been covered many times
before,
> > >but please.
> > >
> > >Carol knows that I think it´s ridiculous, if the instrument is healthy.
> > ><g>  What do other people think?  And what about other Europeans?
> > >
> > >
> > >Kristinn "Psychotuner" Leifsson
> > >Reykjavík, Iceland
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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