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Re: [GEAR] Stretch tuning (Was: Buzz Feiten...)
#1 · October 24, 2003, 8:19 am
Posted by: dstone <dstone@...>
>Dave said:
>>That wouldn't work in my situation, since the piano tuner we _had_ been
>>using consistently tuned the entire piano sharp. (About 1 dot over A=440
>>on my Korg tuner, whatever that translates to.)
>
>Maybe the piano tuner was tuning to concert pitch (A=444 I think). If I
>dig into my memory archives, I think the usual A=440 might be called studio
>pitch.
>>That wouldn't work in my situation, since the piano tuner we _had_ been
>>using consistently tuned the entire piano sharp. (About 1 dot over A=440
>>on my Korg tuner, whatever that translates to.)
>
>Maybe the piano tuner was tuning to concert pitch (A=444 I think). If I
>dig into my memory archives, I think the usual A=440 might be called studio
>pitch.
Since 1939, concert pitch has been officially 440 Hz. I know that many
orchestras now routinely tune sharper, but I didn't think the formal
definition had changed?
Whatever, it's still frustrating and he'd been asked to tune to 440, which
he plainly didn't. So, we're now looking for another piano tuner in
the Toronto area...
Dave