440 vs 442

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 22:09 2/7/2006, you wrote:


>RON MAY, RPT wrote:
>
>>OK so you and I think 442 is crazy. Get ready---I have the Jersulem 
>>Symphony coming to town in a couple of weeks.  They have requested ---ARE 
>>YOU READY FOR THIS--A=441--YEH! THAT IS A ONE.  So Joe, and you think 
>>your guy is good.
>
>Not as uncommon as you may think - that request has been seen in my neck 
>of the woods, and this is hardly Concert-Central.
>
>444 is where I draw the line - the answer is simply no...but then, I do 
>have a Concert Instrument ready at 442..but I won't go to 444 with it. 
>Neither will the hall where it resides, so I have some back-up there.
>
>Ron, supposedly, Seiji Ozawa can tell the difference between 440 and 442.
>
>Again, not as uncommon as you may think.
>
>-Phil Bondi(Fl)

...and it ain't nothin' new.

Back in '79 or '80, I was working for a Phila area dealer and sent to the 
Academy of Music to tune the stage SD10 and the Baldwin R in Ormandy's 
dressing room. The stage was to be at 440, but Ormandy wanted a "high 441" 
in his dressing room.



Conrad Hoffsommer
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