Pitch Anticipation

Newton Hunt nhunt@jagat.com
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:12:51 -0500


Glenn, there are 8 cents per beat at A=440.

There are 100 cents per semitone regardless of scale location.  The
differences in Herz increases the higher you go in the scale.  At A=440 there
are about 26 Hertz difference between semitone.
                        Newton



> >At A 440 six bps (beats per second) sharp of course would be 446.
>
> Wouldn't six beats higher than A440 be 441.something?  I'm basing that on
> knowing that to tune to 442 you must tune A440 8 beats sharp.
>
> Glenn.



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