I'm coming in late here and have missed abit but I did want to pass on that recently I had occasion to tune at Weill Hall, little Carnegie, and I was informed by three different house personnel that the Carnegie Hall piano ptich is currently 444, and don't change it or else... NY Philharmonic Chamber Players insist on 442. Steinway recommends tuning all concert grands at 441 to be able to more easily go either way, I would have thought that more of left coast thing but...I leave most at 441 and no one even notices it's not 440, except Natalie Cole's staff who had ETDs and were working with several synths. It has been my practice in recent years (I used to be an A440 nazi) to float the pitch with the seasons. Alittle sharper in summer never less than 440 in winter. One advantage of using an ETD is being able to precisely assess the pitch throughout the registers, figure an average offset and choose the path of most stability. Isn't there some kind of international treaty about this? Isn't this a job for Interpol? maybe there's a reward? Chris Solliday, RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091111/44ee7ce9/attachment.htm>
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