---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 4/21/2005 12:37:00 P.M. Central Standard Time, jim_busby@byu.edu writes: List, Our percussion teacher told me (this week) that all new percussion (marimbas, Xylophones, etc.) are now coming at A442, and that if you want A440 it is now special order. He didn't tell me which companies, just the ones he typically orders from. Jim Busby BYU _______________________________________________ I found out about this a couple of months ago when the harp player told me she tunes to 442 to be in tune with the percussion instruments. But the oboe plays 440, and no one has asked me to tune the piano to 442. For those orchestras that tune to 440, but use mallet instruments tuned to 442, doesn't the conductor complain these instruments aren't in tune with the rest of the orchestra? This get's me to wondering if those who seem to be so worried about it, really know if the orchestra is tuned to 442 or 440? Personally I think it is just a case of "I want to be different", and/or "I am sooooo good, that I can tell the difference", when perhaps they really can't. Wim Willem Blees, RPT Piano Technician School of Music University of Alabama ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/c3/d3/be/b5/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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