Re: OT: high-precision tuner app

[Phil Holmes]

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To: "N. Andrew Walsh" <address@hidden>; "lilypond-user" 
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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