I'm telling you, its the Emperor's New Clothes syndrome. Some people use things like this to assert a sense of superiority over other people. They can't hear the difference any more than the people they're trying to impress with their "genius". I was asked to tune 441 for a performance the other day. I cannot possibly imagine what the advantage would be for 4 cents in a chamber group other than that they just want to make somebody think they know something everybody else doesn't. I happened to find the piano sitting right at 441 after it hadn't been tuned in several months, so I touched it up. Tanner ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Busby I tested the percussion pitch and all the Musser and Yamaha (vibes and such) are indeed at A443. The director pushing A442 says it gives an "edge" and that European standards are pushing it up (so it must be good???). Funny thing is, he's asked me to tune the piano to A442 before and at least once I forgot (I really did David I.) and the next day he thanked me for tuning it to A442 ...... hummmmmmmmm.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091110/624d374c/attachment.htm>
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