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"T. Diehl" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 7 Feb 2016 15:01:17 +0100
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"To change the subject a little bit, we're all used to tuning to "415", but
how many of you actually use 415 vs 415.3? It's a small difference, but, in
the all-too-common case of university instruments that have to transpose
back and forth without retuning, tuning to 415 leaves you under 440 -
certainly not desirable, especially when much of the 'modern' crowd seems
expects 441 or 442 these days... I usually tune to 415.3, and never get
complaints about the pitch being too high. But it certainly is a small
difference....."

Hello Jonathan,
No offense, but I guess in the age of Internet, people scan and don't read
responses through to the end? Makes discussions somewhat problematic....

As I mentioned earlier this morning, the human ear cannot hear fractional
vibrations, period.
It is a physcial impossibility, like a statistical family of 2.3 children,
you either have 2 or 3.
A discrete wavelength must have a full cycle on the tympanum in order to
register pitch in the cochlea.

Furthermore, regardless of the above, 0.3 Hz is less than the pitch
deflection as a result of the plucking of the harpsichord string, so
0.whatever is a useless fact.

Cheers,
Theodore

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