YOUR LOCAL ORCHESTRA'S CONCERT PITCH. WHAT IS IT?

[Don]

Regina, SK Canada A440.


At 01:29 PM 11/6/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Sorry to be having so much time to waste this week in Washington, but it is
a fact. 
>So, let me pester you a little more.
>
>Would all of you please try to provide  information on the Concert Pitch of
your local
>orchestras?  It would be very helpful as general information to us all.
>
>Hint:  the local orchestra manager "should know".  If he/she does not, and
if you
>happen to know or can determine the name of the principal wood wind
players, call
>them.  They are the most pitch sensitive and will doubtlessly know
immediately the
>answer to your question.
>
>String players don't really care as long as it creeps "higher and
higher"...in a never
>ending spiral toward the heavens.
>
>The winds however react with great disdain to such capers...preferring an
absolute
>pitch.
>
>Bye and thanks again for your help,
> 
>
>Ricard de La Rosa
>PRO PIANO
>
>
>
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
"Tuner for the Centre of the Arts"
drose@dlcwest.com
http://www.dlcwest.com/~drose/
3004 Grant Rd.
REGINA, SK
S4S 5G7
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