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From: "Anthonys Lists" <antli...@youngman.org.uk>
To: "N. Andrew Walsh" <n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com>; "lilypond-user"
<lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: OT: high-precision tuner app
On 23/05/2016 18:38, N. Andrew Walsh wrote:
it's very common to describe a pitch with something like "C# -49.52c"
where the latter part is a deviation in cents from a standard reference
pitch (which can also be set as "A440" or some other tuning pitch [which
is sometimes necessary when dealing with European orchestras inexorably
tuning themselves higher and higher to seem more "flashy" or whatever]).
Not a modern phenomenon. A lot of Baroque parts are almost unsingable in
the original pitch because they were written for A=400 or somesuch.
And when I bought my first trombone the band I played with threatened to
hacksaw bits off it because as a modern instrument it was tuned to A=440.
Most of the (ancient) band instruments were tuned to something like A=460
and mine wouldn't sharpen up enough.
Cheers,
Wol
Anyone who gets excited about stuff like this might like to read:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Performing-Pitch-Story/dp/0810841851
(Yes - I do have a copy)
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Phil Holmes
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