<html> At 06:53 PM 12/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite cite><font size=2>Willem:<br>      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.<br>      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.<br> Tommy Black<br> Decatur, Ala.</font><font face="arial"> </blockquote><br> I have a spreadsheet which shows the distance between each note in hertz (cps)<br> and how many cps/cent and cents/cps.<br> <br> Around A4 there are approximately 4 cents/cps.<br> <br> The distance between A0 and A#0 is ~1.6 hertz; 1.6/100 = 62.5<br> The distance between A7 and A#7 is ~209 hertz; 209/100 = .48<br> <br> It is around the middle of the 6th octave where 1 cent = 1 hertz<br> <br> The note frequencies were supplied by Stephen Birkett, hence the historical notation.<br> <br> If you would like a copy of the Excel spreadsheet please e-mail privately by clicking on the link in my signature.<br> <br> <br> </font><br> <div>Regards,</div> <br> <div>Jon Page,   piano technician</div> <div>Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.</div> <div><a href="mailto:jonpage@attbi.com" EUDORA=AUTOURL>mailto:jonpage@attbi.com</a></div> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ </html>