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sdfernando

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8. You can look at the webpages for insturment manufacturers to see this in action

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 03:06 PM

Jul 2019

I play the flute and have a hand-made solid silver from the 80s. Pitched at A=440. No you can look at Haynes, Powell, Muramatsu, Pearl, just to name a few as see they are starting to make A=442. For strings, it isn't that big a deal, but for woodwinds, building at A=442 necessitates a change in the geometry of the tone-holes (I imaging for brass that would the length of the tubing) to keep the instrument "in tune". So if you play a A=440 instrument tuned to A=442 you need to make a lot more adjustment as you play a piece, same if you play A=442 pitched instrument at A=440.

Story I heard is that A=442 is "brighter" then A=440....yeah?...so A=445 is "brighter" than A=442....How "bright" does it need to get?

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