source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 06:06:49 -0800 Subject: Re: AD3 ? From: Daniel Wolf I spoke with one of the better tuners in Frankfurt today. It seems that chamber music players can range from 435 to 442, western German orchestras and new music groups are at 442/443 and eastern orchestras (include the Berlin Phil) are up around 444/445. Early music groups are all over the place (although 415 and 440 have the largest following), but most pop and commercial recording is done at 440 (if they wish to push the pitch they go ahead and transpose). I hesitate to subscribe to Ray Tomes' extraction of pitches from naturally occuring frequencies (which do vary - sometimes in regular patterns, but often eccentrically - from the values he gives(most reference books give rounded-off values, anyways)), but La Monte Young's pragmatic use of house current frequencies does have something to recommend itself (even if he does have to modulate when he crosses the ocean). It is curious that Tomes claims a fixed pitch for Ni. Besides the fact that singers and instrumentalists vary widely in their choice of Sa (I have heard everything from (in terms of 440A) G to Eb with C# the most frequent ), Ni can have several levels and would seem, from a musical-functional viewpoint, to be an odd choice for a pitch standard. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:25 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA09756; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:25:08 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA09739 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id LAA14444; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 11:23:26 -0800 Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 11:23:26 -0800 Message-Id: <199703081919.OAA16874@phyleus.interlinx.qc.ca> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu