The Pitch Thing

David Ilvedson ilvey@jps.net
Mon, 05 Mar 2001 12:26:59 -0800


Well why don't you?  It won't bother us a bit...

David I.

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On 3/4/01 at 4:25 AM Stephen Airy wrote:

>OK, so maybe I'm weird, but....
>
>
>I wouldn't mind having my personal piano tuned to
>A-427 (quarter step flat), A-415(half step flat), or
>even A-390 (full step flat)  on some occasions, and
>I'm NOT talking about when it's in such bad condition
>that tuning it to 440 will split the plate.
>
>
>--- "Carol R. Beigel" <crbrpt@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>> Why do people want their pianos tuned to anything
>> other than A440?  Why
>> would they want A-442 or higher?  What is the sound
>> that is trying to be
>> achieved here?  Is is not true that a streteched
>> tuning at A440 sounds just
>> as "whatever" as a very clean (non-stretched) tuning
>> at A442 or higher?
>> 
>> Carol Beigel
>> Greenbelt, Maryland
>> 
>
>
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