Re: OT: was Driving me mad now Musical Pitch

["Pete Shew" <ukha_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What do you play? I've just bought a baritone horn at a general auction (=
=A330 - well it's a bit knocked about) and am having fun strugglng with it
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as I've never played brass before.

Pete.

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On 08/10/2004 at 11:14 Davey wrote:

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>this isn't gonna help much but 440hz is Middle C concert pitch. Not
> A above middle C.
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>No it's not.
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>A is 440 Hz at concert pitch. This is defined as A4 or the A in the
forth
>octave on a standard modern day concert piano - normally written as
A440.
>There was an older international standard (A=3D435) so sounds a little
fla=
t
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>the modern piano tuner. Listen to a recording of say a French orchestra
in
>the 40's and they can sound flat (lower) in pitch than a modern
orchestra.
>A440 was defined as a standard in the mid 50's
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>A @ baroque pitch is 415 Hz - which is roughly a semi tone flat - on a
>keyboard the G# (actually G is 415.3) is used widely today for
"period
>instrument" performance.
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>Here endeth the music lesson for today.
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>Davey
>(orchestral player for the last 25 years)
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>From: "darren_karp2001" <darren@xxxxxxx>
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 9:08 PM
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Driving me mad
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>> this isn't gonna help much but 440hz is Middle C concert pitch.
Not
>> A above middle C.
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>> Darren
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