Cents to Hertz Conversion Chart

Jon Page jonpage@attbi.com
Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:17:37 -0500


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At 06:53 PM 12/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Willem:
>      Just last week the pipe orgran tuner from Nashville tuned the organ 
> 13 cents flat and let a note for me to tune the piano "quote....a little 
> below A-440".    #*%^$///...how much is a little . I am still not quite 
> sure how many 'cents' there are per 'beat' between A-440 & A-439  & on 
> down the cycles per second band.
>      Normally, I tune the piano to A-440 and never try to catch the 
> changing pitch of a pipe organ depending upon the temperature but this 
> time because the music director was my buddy, I tuned to the 'whatever 
> pitch' flat organ.
>Tommy Black
>Decatur, Ala.

I have a spreadsheet which shows the distance between each note in hertz (cps)
and how many cps/cent and cents/cps.

Around A4 there are approximately 4 cents/cps.

The distance between A0 and A#0 is ~1.6 hertz; 1.6/100 = 62.5
The distance between A7 and A#7 is ~209 hertz; 209/100 = .48

It is around the middle of the 6th octave where 1 cent = 1 hertz

The note frequencies were supplied by Stephen Birkett, hence the historical 
notation.

If you would like a copy of the Excel spreadsheet please e-mail privately 
by clicking on the link in my signature.



Regards,

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@attbi.com
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