I beg to differ, as I take this up all the time here in Norway. Fact is that both France, Germany, England, all of Scandinavia and most of the rest of Europe (including Holland which is kind of a seperate universe) and even Russia officially recognize 440 as standard pitch. Now what is done in practice is another thing. Another one of those... "fact is" things is that its hard to find musicians of note (or otherwise) has the foggiest idea over here that such an official standard really exists. Curiously enough, it would seem that Jazz players are more aware of this then anyone else, why I have no idea... but just so. 442 is the defacto standard here, but 440 is the official figure... despite whatever is adopted by whatever orchestra here or there... RicB Isaac OLEG wrote: > Hi ! > > Not in France, where 442 rules (as in Europe generally, I believe, to > the point Yamaha pianos and Marimba's and vibraphones are tuned to 442 > and higher from the start when sold in Europe). > > We call that "cultural exception", and everybody is happy like that ! > (in fact no one bother about) > > Regards. > > Isaac -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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