<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4616.200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Stan,</DIV> <DIV>Thanks for your insights. I guess that's why my klarinet career = never took off. I was always playing in the wrong key :-)  :-)</DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Joseph Alkana  RPT<BR><A href="mailto:josephspiano@attbi.com">josephspiano@attbi.com</A></FONT><= /DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=JStan40@AOL.COM = href="mailto:JStan40@AOL.COM">JStan40@AOL.COM</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 22, 2002 = 6:27 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Frequencies?<FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: = #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR></FONT><FONT = lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Bell MT" color=#000000 = size=3 FAMILY="SERIF">Joe,<BR><BR>I'm sure you've already gotten this = reply--but in the European system, B is Bb and H is B natural........hence the fugue = on B-A-C-H, where the subject starts Bb, A, C, B natural.  There are = other differences as well, but this one seems to cause the most trouble = here.  As in Klarinet in B, for example!<BR><BR>And I'm sure Diane knows = about the frequency variations out in the field!<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Stan Ryberg<BR>Barrington IL<BR>mailto:<U>jstan40@aol.com</U></FONT> </FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>