A-440 Policy?

[Brian Lawson]

Probably Newton would say that it is harmful to the tuner, but perhaps the
European tuners maintain their instruments at a set pitch of 443 or 444 and
dont kept changing it.


Mind you, a tuner here asked to tune to 442  "you know it's so close, no one
will know"

Brian Lawson, RPT
Johannesburg, South Africa


.  Some European orchestras routinely
> tune to A=443 or 444.  This is so routine, that I have a hunch that
> you are going to find little collaborative evidence that it is
> fundamentally harmful to the piano. >
> Charles Ball, RPT
> School of Music
> University of Texas at Austin
> ckball@mail.utexas.edu