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

[Roger Jolly]

Saskatoon Sympony A=440, unless requested otherwise by visiting soloist.



At 01:29 PM 06/11/98 -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
> 
Roger Jolly
Baldwin Yamaha Piano Centre
Saskatoon and Regina
Saskatchewan, Canada.
306-665-0213
Fax 652-0505