[CAUT] A=440?

[Jeff Tanner]

Well, aren't European pianos scaled at 440 as well?
Jeff


On Thursday, April 21, 2005, at 03:21 PM, J Kemple wrote:

> I tuned & lived in Norway for 2 years.  After about a month of tuning 
> for a music store, I started getting questioned about why my tunings 
> sounded wierd.  Further discussion turned up that my forks were at 
> 440.   They couldn't believe it.  The store included employees from 
> France, Scotland, Norway & Poland.  None of them had ever heard of 
> "International Standard Pitch" (they were used to 442 or 444) and 
> jested that, as usual, "International" meant "American".  I replaced 
> my fork with a 442, and all was well after that.
>
Jeff Tanner, RPT
School Of Music
University of South Carolina