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

[Steve Pearson]

Long Beach Symphony  A=440

>>> Avery Todd <atodd@UH.EDU> 11/06 11:58 AM >>>
Houston, TX   A-442

>Sorry to be having so much time to waste this week in Washington, but it
>is a fact.Ý
>So, let me pester you a little more.
>
>Would all of you please try to provideÝ information on the Concert Pitch
>of your local
>orchestras?Ý It would be very helpful as general information to us all.
>
>Hint:Ý the local orchestra manager "should know".Ý If he/she does not, and
>if you
>happen to know or can determine the name of the principal wood wind
>players, call
>them.Ý 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,
>Ý
>
>Ricard de La Rosa
>PRO PIANO


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Avery Todd, RPT
Moores School of Music
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-4893
713-743-3226
atodd@uh.edu 
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