Re: OT: high-precision tuner app

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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